Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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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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