#carefulness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carefulness, aggregated by home.social.
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MARY: Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Mary, Mary, Act 1 (1960)More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/8721/
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he [Holmes] remarked with a smile. “It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 3, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
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To be over-wise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stock-still.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-04), “Æs Triplex,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
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