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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
— Lord Byron
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Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
— Frederic Raphael
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Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction
— Carol Alt
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
— William Randolph Hearst
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I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
— Julian Schnabel
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Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
— Mike D
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
— John Hodgman
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The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
— Greg Cox
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Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
— Richard Posner
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,…
— Bill Vaughan
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