No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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 is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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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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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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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.
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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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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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