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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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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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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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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 soul is swayed by the waters.

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Violence recoils on the violent.

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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

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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 derision and contempt . . .

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