Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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 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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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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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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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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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