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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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A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like…
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about…
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Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…
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I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…
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If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they…
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man…
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