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“In a shilling-spin of an instant I realised that he wasn’t a crude work but the ruin of something fine.”
― The Bedlam Stacks
― The Bedlam Stacks
“The truth was that he loved Mori so hopelessly he could have found a way to excuse cemeteries of dead wives.”
― The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
― The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language unrelated to English is nothing to do with equivalent words. Whenever I'd tried to do that in Chinese I'd come out with unbroken nonsense. I had to forget the English, hang the meaning up in a well-lit gallery, stare at it hard, then describe it afresh.”
― The Bedlam Stacks
― The Bedlam Stacks
“...to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.”
― The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
― The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
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