The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEvil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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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 chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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