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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 h...more

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own...more

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all...more

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all...more

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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

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She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence wh...more

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own...more