To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is more than possible; it is probable.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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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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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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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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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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