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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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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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Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off… — Augustus William Hare
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars. — Jeff Gordon
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work? — Richard Branson
Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of… — Richard Branson
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. — Will Rogers
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés,… — Jeff Lindsay
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott
Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the… — Yves Behar

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