For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhere there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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