The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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