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  • Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

  •    My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But that he means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay.

    - George Herbert
    'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  • I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza1, l.1^2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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