There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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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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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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