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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

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My job is to know what other people do not know.

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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose ...more

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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, a...more

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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the ...more

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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; th...more

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The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of ...more

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Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all r...more