Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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