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"What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?"
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."
"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"
"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."
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"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
"Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world."
"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."
"I took my line straight away. I knew I was staking everything, but I jumped there and then. "We're on absolutely the biggest thing that has ever been invented," I said, and put the accent on "we." "If you want to keep me out of this, you'll have to do it with a gun. I'm coming down to be your fourth labourer to-morrow."
"Growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination."
"It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us."
"One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction " nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dead."
"Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes."
"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
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