“You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.”
Source: The Sign of Four
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“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
Source: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
“But, when the goddess' work is done,
The woman's still remains.”
East and West Poems, Part I, The Goddess.
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it.”
As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
Context: In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 90
1790s
"Little More Time With You"
Song lyrics, Hourglass (1997)
“A white bottle is all that remain.”
a remark to Lamberto Vitali in 1962; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, published by Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco - 2008; p. 280
referring to the small grooved white bottle https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/morandi-still-life-n05782, returning frequently in his many still life's, he painted between 1950 – 1960
1945 - 1964
“When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"”
there is no answer to be made.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.