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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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 am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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