For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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The game is afoot.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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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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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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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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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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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