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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECritics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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The game is afoot.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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