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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECircumstantial 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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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