A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOf all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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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.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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