A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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The game is afoot.
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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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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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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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