It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEducation never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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