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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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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not…
— Jack W. Hayford
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
— Samuel Johnson
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And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
— George Washington
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It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of…
— David Hume
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Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
— Bruce Lee
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The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated)…
— Tory Burch
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When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not…
— Pema Chodron
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Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
— Boyd K. Packer
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge…
— Will Durant
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...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
— Henry James
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