For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLETo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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 devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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