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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 most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man…
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have…
— Belle Boyd
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A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as…
— Maria Monk
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There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that…
— Gregory Peck
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There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
— C.S. Lewis
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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…
— Jane Austen
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A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods…
— Daniel Handler
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is…
— Jonathan Swift
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While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months…
— Jane Austen
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He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
— Charlaine Harris
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