It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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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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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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