A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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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A dog reflects the family life.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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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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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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