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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits…

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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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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and… — Kathe Kollwitz
This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than… — Ted Kooser
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window… — Shashi Tharoor
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its… — Witold Gombrowicz
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. — Mike Hernacki
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window… — Vernon Howard
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. — Charles Baudelaire
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the… — Annie Dillard
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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