The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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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 is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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