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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA 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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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One must wait till it comes.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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It 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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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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