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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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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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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

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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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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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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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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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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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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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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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