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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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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 irksome to me.

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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

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