When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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The game is afoot.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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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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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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