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"Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter."
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"If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done."
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"And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself."
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"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
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"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"
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"I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems."
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"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."
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"Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net."
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"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
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"Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it."
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"You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies."
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"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
Learning

"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
Reason

"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
Friendship

"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
Future

"Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental."
Knowledge

"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
Philosophy

"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing

"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
Responsibility

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Intelligence

"How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
Nature
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