What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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 fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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