There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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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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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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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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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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