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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor 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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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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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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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