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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

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