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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
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"The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
Fate

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
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"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
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"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."
Education

"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, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Mystery

"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
Community

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
Fact

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
Books

"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Memory

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
Profession
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