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/ page 837 of 1205 /We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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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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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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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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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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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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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
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The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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