Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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The game is afoot.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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