We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe 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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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