I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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