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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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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
— Gautama Buddha
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Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
— Charles Darwin
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
— R. H. Tawney
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t…
— Anthony Trollope
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I…
— John Ruskin
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
— Israel Zangwill
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Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and…
— Lucinda Franks
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