Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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 is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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