There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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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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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One must wait till it comes.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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