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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.

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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.

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Very Few Of Us Are What We Seem.

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I Do Not Argue With Obstinate Men. I Act In Spite Of Them.

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One Knows So Little. When One Knows More It Is Too Late.

I Have A Certain Experience Of The Way People Tell Lies.

There Is Evil Everywhere Under The Sun.

The Impossible Could Not Have Happened, Therefore The Impossible Must Be Possible In Spite Of Appearances.

From An Early Age I Knew Very Strongly The Lust To Kill.

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Impossible Things

Everybody Is Very Much Alike, Really. But Fortunately, Perhaps, They Don't Realise It. - Miss Marple

The Young People Think The Old People Are Fools -- But The Old People Know The Young People Are Fools.

One Is Left With The Horrible Feeling Now That War Settles Nothing; That To Win A War Is As Disastrous As To Lose One.

To Keep Something Wild Is Far More Difficult Than To Preserve It.

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Things Go Entirely Differently From The Way You Planned Them.

I Have Enjoyed Greatly The Second Blooming... Suddenly You Find - At The Age Of 50, Say - That A Whole New Life Has Opened Before You.

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Liking Is More Important Than Loving. It Lasts. I Want What Is Between Us To Last, Luke. I Don't Want Us Just To Love Each Other And Marry And Get Tired Of Each Other And Then Want To Marry Some One Else.

I Am Not Mad. I Am Eccentric Perhaps--at Least Certain People Say So; But As Regards My Profession. I Am Very Much As One Says, 'all There.

No Innocent Person Ever Has An Alibi.

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