Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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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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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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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The game is afoot.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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