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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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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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

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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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