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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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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."
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
"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."
"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."
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
"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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