I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

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.

  3. To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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