To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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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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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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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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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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