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"I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation."
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"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."

"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"

"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."

"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."

"Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality."
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"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"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."

"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."

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."

"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 his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
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