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The minds of children move strangely. Delicate, small things which quite escape the attention of their elders, to them are all in all. A tree in the dark of night may seem to them ominous as the villain of the play; a smile may shock them through and through with happiness; and a frown may lock up a lasting sorrow in their hearts.

"It didn't mean anything, probably. Why should it? But yet—"I know too much," said Poirot angrily to himself. "I know too much. I know a little about everything and everyone, but I cannot get my pattern.
Half these facts are irrelevant. I want a pattern. A pat-tern. My kingdom for a pattern," he said aloud."

" I had to find my way past that black armor. Funny how it used to be easier. Suspicion used to be on an individual basis. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist."

"There is the old saying that God and your folks give you the face you're born with, but you earn the one you die with".

"...cultures seem to have an uncanny way of spawning creatures to fill any need. So situation ethics, plus profitable manipulation, brought this merry regiment out of the wings, as if they had been waiting there all along. It would be pointless to conjecture about immorality or amorality, or make analogies about whoredom, that word with the ring of biblical accusation. "