The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECrime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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