I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to 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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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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 every man’s business to see justice done.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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