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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings…

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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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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin… — J. B. Priestley
I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it… — Steven Morrissey
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I… — Tony Benn
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings… — Bill Shankly
Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all;… — Roger Waters
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for… — Nevil Shute
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most… — Henry Mayhew
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent. — Benjamin Franklin
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London… — Karl Philipp Moritz
To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13… — George Washington
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin

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