A change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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