My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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