I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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One must wait till it comes.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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 grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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A change of work is the best rest.
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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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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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