When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor 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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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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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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