Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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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 no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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