The past is but the beginning of a beginning. —H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future
Ratiocination.
The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.
The water stretched out as far as the eye could see in an expanse of gentle grey-blue swells broken only by the occasional white-capped wavelet and the line of the ship’s passage, unrolling die-straig...
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the , the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and ha...
These last weeks, since Christmas, have been odd ones. I have begun to doubt that I knew you as well as I thought. I have even wondered if you wished to keep some part of yourself hidden from me in or...
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN
But having an entire policy of ‘Us Good, Them Bad’ does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect.
When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
Who am I?’ you mean. He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. Do you know what a fugue is? Are you changing the subject? No. I thought in silence for some dis...
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect.
Were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And
XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.
You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor? Lestrade asked. Evidently. Why do that? Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape th...
You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.
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