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  • #181
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
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  • #182
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, watson
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  • #183
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: moriarty, sherlock-holmes, sir-arthur-conan-doyle, the-final-problem
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  • #184
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--"
    "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity.
    "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly."
    "Then had you not better consult him?"
    "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--"
    "Just a little," said Holmes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: hound-of-the-baskervilles, humour, sherlock-holmes
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  • #185
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I have taken to living by my wits.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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  • #186
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I confess that I should feel a bit afraid of asking Sunday who he really is.”

    “Why,” asked the Secretary, “for fear of bombs?”

    “No,” said the Professor, “for fear he might tell me.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: detective-novel, the-man-who-was-thursday
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  • #187
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #188
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: crime, punishment
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  • #189
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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  • #190
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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  • #191
    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #192
    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
    tags: authors, books, writing
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  • #193
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: gullibility
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  • #194
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: free-speech
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  • #195
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: art, morality
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  • #196
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #197
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #198
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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  • #199
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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  • #200
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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  • #201
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: golf
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  • #202
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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  • #203
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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  • #204
    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: laughter
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  • #205
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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  • #206
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #207
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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  • #208
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #209
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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  • #210
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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