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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
Source: Murder for Christmas (1939) -
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand come down empty...Source: Tapestry (1971) -
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
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He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
Source: The Sign of the Four (1890) -
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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