I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEJealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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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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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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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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