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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

"This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities."

"After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for."
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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."

"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it."

"Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors."

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."

"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"

"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."

"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."

"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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