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“So for me, there’s no shame in small jobs,” I continue. I ignore the spike of heat in my belly at seeing approval in Sidney’s gaze. “There’s only shame in jobs poorly done.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
― Essays and Addresses
― Essays and Addresses
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
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“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
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“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II
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