We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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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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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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One must wait till it comes.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire 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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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