Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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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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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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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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle in The Sign of Four (1890)
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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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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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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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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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