Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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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