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 great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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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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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, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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