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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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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as… — Primo Levi
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. — Dizzy Gillespie
I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good… — Paul Halmos
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. — Frederick The Great
No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as… — John Douillard
Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.… — Aldous Huxley
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and… — Joseph Lancaster
We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A… — Ezra Taft Benson
One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due… — Kiefer Sutherland
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw

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