I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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 is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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