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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.

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Is he then an unhappy man?
Poirot said:
So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.
The nun said softly:
Ah, a rich man…

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What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

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Because, Renisenb, it is so easy and it costs so little labour to write down ten bushels of barley, or a hundred head of cattle, or ten fields of spelt - and the thing that is written will come to seem like the real thing, and so the writer and the scribe will come to despise the man who ploughs the fields and reaps the barley and raises the cattle - but all the same the fields and the cattle are real - they are not just marks of inks on papyrus. And when all the records and all the papyrus rolls are destroyed and the scribes are scattered, the men who toil and reap will go on, and Egypt will still live.

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All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guesswork over logic.

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The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts — not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase — that is to say, the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.

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Speech... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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And then, startling in its crisp transatlantic tones, a voice said:
Stick 'em up.
They swerved around. Schwartz, dressed in a peculiarly vivid set of striped pyjamas stood in the doorway. In his hand he held an automatic.
Stick 'em up, guys. I'm pretty good at shooting.
He pressed the trigger—and a bullet sang past the big man's ear and buried itself in the woodwork of the window.
Three pairs of hands were raised rapidly.

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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)

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Flattery, in Tuppence's opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned.

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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way — whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.

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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

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