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"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?"
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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."
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"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."
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"We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. ...A fatty trusts another fatty."
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"When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin."
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"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."
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"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."
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"Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship."
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
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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."
Life

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
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."
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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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"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
Character

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"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."
Man

"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."
Writing
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