There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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