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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: easy, elementary, sherlock-holmes, simple
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  • #12
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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  • #13
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The game is afoot.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: shakespearean, sherlock-holmes
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  • #14
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
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  • #15
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: accomplishment, belief, rewriting-history, sherlock-holmes
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  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: mental, mind, mystery, rebellion, sherlock-holmes, stagnation
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  • #17
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
    tags: brain, intellect, sherlock-holmes
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  • #18
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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  • #20
    Steven Moffat
    “I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
    ― Steven Moffat, A Study In Pink
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: fate, good-and-evil, sherlock-holmes
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  • #22
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: moriarty, sherlock-holmes
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  • #23
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: arthur-conan-doyle, sherlock-holmes
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  • #25
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: batteries, electricity, energy, exhaustion, futility, sherlock-holmes
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  • #26
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: mystery, sherlock, sherlock-holmes
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  • #28
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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  • #29
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You know my methods. Apply them.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: detection, investigation, methods, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
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  • #31
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    tags: mystery, sherlock-holmes, watson
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  • #32
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No ghosts need apply.

    - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: ghosts, holmesian, realism, scepticism, sherlock-holmes, sherlockian
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