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'There are one or two element...

'There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients,' he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. 'The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel.'

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'Dr. Munro, sir,' said he, ...

'Dr. Munro, sir,' said he, 'I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy.'

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Detection is, or ought to be, ...

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

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A fine horse or a beautiful wo...

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, h...

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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An absence of antecedents and ...

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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I feel that there is reason lu...

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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I trust that age doth not with...

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

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Steel True, Blade Straight....

Steel True, Blade Straight.

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Dogs don't make mistakes....

Dogs don't make mistakes.

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The most winning woman I ever ...

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

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Hot hate is twin brother to ho...

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

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A study of family portraits is...

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

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Conceive a jelly-fish such as ...

Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my hea

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Just as an octopus may have hi...

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

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It was in the days when France...

It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

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How wise and how merciful is t...

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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A man with so large a brain mu...

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

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The Adventure of the Noble Bac...

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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Excellent!' I cried. 'Elemen...

Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.

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