For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe 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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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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One must wait till it comes.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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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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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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