There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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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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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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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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A change of work is the best rest.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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