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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
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If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
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One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
