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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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