There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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One must wait till it comes.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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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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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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The game is afoot.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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