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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the…
— Harry S. Truman
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;…
— Thomas Browne
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He…
— Augustus De Morgan
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground…
— Henry Sidgwick
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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
— Maxwell Maltz
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility…
— David Foster Wallace
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