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The game is afoot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Balance Choose Imagination Probable Science
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Believe Knowledge Thinking
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Evil Himself Indeed Man Woman
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Admire Fools One Liner
Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Horror Imagination Inspirational One Liner
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Business Done Justice Man One Liner
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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Crime Obvious Rule Simplicity
The game is afoot.
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Game One Liner
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Crime Difficult Purpose Track
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Confound Mistake Mystery Strange
When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Break Up Freedom Man Woman
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Brain Engine Material Pieces Race Sufficient
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Close Courage Danger Recognize Refuse Stupidity
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Fall Truth Violence
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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Doubt One Liner Truth
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Book History Individual Nation

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