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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“presume nothing”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clear"
"Footprints?"

"Footprints."

"A man's or a woman's?"

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of s gigantic hound!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“War is over ... If you want it.”
― John Lennon

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
― Ben Franklin

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard