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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
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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."

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

"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"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."

"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."

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

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

"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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