I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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The game is afoot.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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