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 DOYLEThe devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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For 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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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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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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