The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHealthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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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 my business to know what other people do not know.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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 larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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