The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECrime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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The game is afoot.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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