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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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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…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
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…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
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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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in… — Samuel Johnson
Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this… — Stephen Foster
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. — William Cowper
And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have… — Herman Melville
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis. — Raoul Dufy
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:… — Arturo Toscanini
Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no… — Lewis Carroll
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. — Peter O'Toole

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