I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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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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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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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