"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."
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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."
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"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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"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
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"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
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"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."
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"I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"The truth is lived, not taught."
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"You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God."
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?"
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"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."
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"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does."
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"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
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