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.
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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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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