It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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The game is afoot.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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One must wait till it comes.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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