The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, … - Arthur Conan Doyle

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Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

Arthur Conan Doyle

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

Destiny, Eaten, Food, Morning, Retained

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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Art, Free Education, Accomplishment, Problems, Highest, Solution

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Love, Heart, Wedding Anniversary, Life, Thought

How sweet the morning air is!. . . How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Sweet, Morning, Ambition, Ambitions, Petty

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Book, Life, Small, Small Numbers, Start, Thing

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Flower, Smell, Rose, Against, Life, Condition

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For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.

Inscribed, Lamp, Law, Magic, Night, Paltry