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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
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"It is a very strange thing to see so many images in the world around us... we don't realise it, but we are all impressionable beings, able to pick up off of the images that bombard us on a daily basis. We are created and moulded by images and impressions. One of the most difficult tasks in life, is to keep a steady impression of something in your sight, and to believe in it until it becomes you. Because there is just so much temptation/opportunity, to become something else."

"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."

"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."

"I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down."

"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."

"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."

"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
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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."

"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"

"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."

"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?"

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

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

"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you."
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