It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhere there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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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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One must wait till it comes.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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