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"She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."

"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."

"There is so much we'll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway."

"The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself."
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"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."

"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."

"I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all."
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