What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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