The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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