"---------You have at your club all day, I perceive."
" My dear Sherlock Holmes !"
"Am I right..?"
"Certainly but how.......?"
He laughed at my bewildered expression.
"There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson,which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense. A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate with a gloss still on his boots.He has been a fixture, therefore, all day. He is not a man with intimate friends, where, then, could he have been? Is it not obvious?
Arthur Conan Doyle(Hound of Baskervilles)
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Whether our argument concerns public affair or some other subject we must know some, if not all, of the facts about the subject on which we are to speak and argue.Otherwise we can have no material out of which to construct arguments.
Every Art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be at which all things aim.
Aristotle, Rhetoric.
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On examining the apparently solid shell of a hen's egg, one may wonder how the egg can absorb the oxygen necessary to sustain the life and development of the embryo inside it. Obviously the shell must be permeable to oxygen; it must therefore have holes that are big enough to allow oxygen molecules to enter.
H.E.Hinton (Insect Eggshells)
" My dear Sherlock Holmes !"
"Am I right..?"
"Certainly but how.......?"
He laughed at my bewildered expression.
"There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson,which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense. A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate with a gloss still on his boots.He has been a fixture, therefore, all day. He is not a man with intimate friends, where, then, could he have been? Is it not obvious?
Arthur Conan Doyle(Hound of Baskervilles)
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Whether our argument concerns public affair or some other subject we must know some, if not all, of the facts about the subject on which we are to speak and argue.Otherwise we can have no material out of which to construct arguments.
Every Art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be at which all things aim.
Aristotle, Rhetoric.
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On examining the apparently solid shell of a hen's egg, one may wonder how the egg can absorb the oxygen necessary to sustain the life and development of the embryo inside it. Obviously the shell must be permeable to oxygen; it must therefore have holes that are big enough to allow oxygen molecules to enter.
H.E.Hinton (Insect Eggshells)
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