You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLENo man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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