Robert Barr Quotes

#1. It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

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#2. The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

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#3. Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater risks in carrying them out, than any other malefactor on earth.

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#4. No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

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#5. Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

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#6. A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

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#7. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

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#8. The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude.

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#9. Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.

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