There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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The game is afoot.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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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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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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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 times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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 with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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