What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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It 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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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