The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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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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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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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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