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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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"Character is what can do without success."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
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"Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people."
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"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
Friendship
"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
Future
"Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental."
Knowledge
"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
Philosophy
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing
"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
Responsibility
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Intelligence
"How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
Nature
"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
Courage
"My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
Philosophy
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