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This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.

And you want to 'reform' people like that when dynamite is so cheap?

Maud's manner indicated that the falsity of the story was an insignificant flaw in its general delightfulness.

They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk.

Do you suppose it's dangerous? she asked her father, who said a lot of comforting things that didn't mean anything.

she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

My poor stricken country needs the co-operation of America. We look to you--and if you do not give back the glance we shall have to look to Russia.

Salim,' She said, as if he were in the room. 'I'll have your guts for garters.' I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—'This account of you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

What a blind beetle I have been, not to draw my conclusion. And what is your conclusion? Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops.

Y, cuando habla de Irene Adler, o se refiere a su fotografía, utiliza siempre el honorable título de <>.

I forgive you, Sir Knight, said Rowena, as a Christian. That means, said Wamba, that she does not forgive him at all.

By my faith,' said Wamba, 'it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company.

I keep the bible in a pool of blood so that none of its lies can affect me.

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I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

He turns slightly... and smiles. Just a small smile, but lovely. Sexy.

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.