I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEArt in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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The game is afoot.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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