Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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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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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The game is afoot.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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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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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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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