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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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