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Today in all too many Northern communities a sort of quasi-liberalism prevails, so bent on seeing all sides that it fails to become dedicated to any side. It is so objectively analytical that it is not subjectively committed.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

You're the one thought psychopaths were so interesting, but they're kinda tiresome after a while, don't you think?

The Catholic Bishop Cahal Daly, describing the abduction as 'repugnant' and 'an outrage to all humanitarian feelings

Governments had socialized the liabilities of the core institutions of the global financial system.

or syncretism which derived from some fortuitous

love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin

Every...woman, the old lady said, loves a ...rogue.

Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.

And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

Goethe is always pithy.

The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance. You cunning, cunning fiend! was all that he could say.

Are you in the police yourself?" "No." "What business is it of yours, then?" "It's every man's business to see justice done.

seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time

No data yet, he answered. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

It is an old manuscript." "Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery." "How can you say that, sir?" "You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking. It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.

Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. There is one of our bacilli squeaking for help, said he with a grim smile. They are beginning to realise that their continued existence is not really one of the necessities of the universe.

Consideraría impertinente que sometiese a una prueba más severa sus teorías? —Todo lo contrario —me contestó—; con ello me evitaría una segunda dosis de cocaína.

They're dangerous at both ends...and crafty in the middle.

You won't die in your bed, Holmes. I have often had the same idea.

Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with

has not been wasted, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as

and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.