There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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