Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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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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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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