What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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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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