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Early in the following week, during a performance of Richard, Pip Barnard had to go on as understudy and, wearing a heavy cloak, he knocked against the open keys of a piano offstage. Just when Richard was in the middle of the soliloquy, ‘Is
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
― The Female Man
But the frogs die in earnest.”
― The Female Man
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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