"We can't command our love, but we can our actions.“

-Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

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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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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

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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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