How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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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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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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One must wait till it comes.
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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.
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