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  1. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    Although of course I am aware that it changes colour in a jar. But we know why, surely? The heavier melancholic elements in the blood sink, making the top lighter and the bottom darker.""Not so," I said firmly. "Cover the jar, and the colour does not change. And I can find no explanation of how such separation could occur in the lungs. But when it emerges from the lungs - at least, this is the case in cats - it is very much lighter in colour than when it goes in, indicating that some darkness is withdrawn from it.""I must cut up a cat and see for myself. A live cat, was it?""It was for a while.
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  2. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.
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  3. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    Mr. Milton set out in his great poem to justify the ways of God to men, as he says. He has not considered one question, however: perhaps God has forbidden men to know His ways, for if they did know the full extent of His goodness, and the magnitude of our rejection of it, they would be so disheartened they would abandon all hope of redemption, and die of grief. I
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    men had turned their minds to the passion of faction, and learned to despise the old wisdom because they could not read it afresh.
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    An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.
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    The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed their pride. Leave 'em alone or hang 'em, in my opinion. Or better still, pack them off to the Americas, and let them starve.
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  7. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    Who you are is less important than what you seem.
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  8. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.
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  9. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. "You will do what your masters tell you to do, doctor. As do we all.
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  10. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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  11. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;
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  12. Iain Pears _ An Instance of the Fingerpost

    The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
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