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

Character, Children, First, Parents

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

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"I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall."

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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

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"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

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

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"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."

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

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"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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"Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."

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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."

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"There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"

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