Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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 unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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 no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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