I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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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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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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