Этюд в багровых тонах. Рассказы

Артур Конан Дойл

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Аноним25 января 2018 г.
“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
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Аноним25 января 2018 г.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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Аноним25 января 2018 г.
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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Аноним25 января 2018 г.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Аноним25 января 2018 г.
'To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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Аноним26 мая 2017 г.
Головой надо иногда думать, а не носить ее, как украшение. That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.
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Аноним22 марта 2017 г.
Голову на плечах треба носити не тільки як прикрасу, а й думати нею.
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Аноним22 марта 2017 г.
він може виконувати музичні п'єси, до того ж складні, я знав добре, бо на моє прохання він зіграв мені кілька «Пісень» Мендельсона й деякі інші улюблені мною речі
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Аноним22 марта 2017 г.
За таких обставин мене, природно, тягло в Лондон, цю велику помийну яму, яка неминуче вбирає в себе нероб і ледарів з усієї імперії.
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Аноним22 марта 2017 г.
Я був вільний як вітер,— точніше, вільний настільки, наскільки дозволяє людині бути вільною доход в одинадцять шилінгів і шість пенсів на день.
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