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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog…

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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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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn… — George Lincoln Rockwell
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. — Beatrix Potter
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully… — Lewis Carroll
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the… — Annie Dillard
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone. — Holly Black
Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws.… — Cassandra Clare
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! The Caterpillar — Alice In Wonderland

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