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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all…

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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in… — Clarence Darrow
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but… — David Hume
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — Hannah More
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All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — Blaise Pascal
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves… — Blaise Pascal
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,… — Baruch Spinoza
I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd… — Sophie Kinsella

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