What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

Agatha Christie
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  1. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
  2. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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  4. Poirot, " I said. "I have been thinking."" An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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