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The game is afoot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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Always Combination Dare Effect Effort Extraordinary Imagination Life Strange
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Memories Reading Strange
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Mind Noble Ruin
Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Antitode Inspirational One Liner Sorrow Work
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
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Appearance Fellow Justice Mortal
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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Doubt One Liner Truth
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Mind Problem Rebel Work
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Business Done Justice Man One Liner
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Deception Fact Obvious One Liner Truth
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Cease Continue Deserve Happen Life Name Unexpected
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Clear Emotional Quality Reason
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Crime Difficult Purpose Track
The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Mathematics Reason Science
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Humour World
A change of work is the best rest.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Work
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Crime Difficult Purpose Track
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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Circle Come Life Wheel
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Adapt Clever Infinite Life Suppose
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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Brain Clever Crime Wicked World Worst
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Mystery Prove Rule
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Ancient Book Pleasant
I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Ending Revenge Settle Want World
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Companion Gift Grand Silence Value
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Book Choice Gift God Love
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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Character Children Gain Insight Parents Study
Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Horror Imagination Inspirational One Liner

The game is afoot.

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