Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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The game is afoot.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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