Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECircumstantial 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.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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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.
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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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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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