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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bram Stoker He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
    Source: Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Herbert He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sigmund Freud He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Horace He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jeremy Collier He that has his own troubles and the happiness of his neighbours to disturb him has work enough.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Baltasar Gracián He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • James Howell He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
    James Howell
    English-Welsh historian and writer (1594 - 1666)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Lao-Tzu He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Albert Camus He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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