It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhere there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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