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" Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
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" Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. "
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" As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. "
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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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" I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. "
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