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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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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
— Sun Tzu
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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
— George Santayana
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
— Thomas Huxley
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
— Denis Diderot
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Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3)…
— Sun Tzu
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain…
— Joseph Addison
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage,…
— Walter Bagehot
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The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
— Unknown Author
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