To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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One must wait till it comes.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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