“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sherlock Holmes
― Sherlock Holmes
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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