Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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