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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…

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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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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. — Julie Andrews
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities. — Sheryl Sandberg
Trust is not about being comfortable. It is about being willing to move beyond your comfort zone when there is absolutely no… — Iyanla Vanzant
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's… — Charlie Huston
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us. — Tim Hansel
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister
What happens when we begin to praise our own abilities? And this is not focusing on an inflated ego, but on appreciation… — John Templeton
I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too,… — Chuck Grassley
As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation.… — Christopher Doyle

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