The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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The game is afoot.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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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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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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