Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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The game is afoot.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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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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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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One must wait till it comes.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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