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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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