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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Carve every word before you let it fall.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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