There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhat 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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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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