The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAny truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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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 is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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