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.
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 are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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