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" Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
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" I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. "
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" It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. "
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" Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. "
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" The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. "
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" You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. "
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" It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. "
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" How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? "
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" Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. "
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" To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. "
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Pleasure
Art
" I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. "
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" Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. "
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" Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. "
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" The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. "
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" We can't command our love, but we can our actions. "
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" When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "
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" Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. "
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" Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. "
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Nothing
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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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" My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. "
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