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 | "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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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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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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Found in the topic Small.
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| "I don"t speak for others and they don"t speak for me. Mediocrity
knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes
genius." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact." | |
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Found in the topic Fact.
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| "It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest
and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin
than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sherlock Holmes speaking
with Dr. Watson." | |
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Found in the topic Circus.
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| "It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each
dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing
so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one"s
audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a
startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect." | |
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Found in the topic Conclusions.
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| "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly
recognizes genius." | |
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Found in the topic Mediocre.
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| "You know my method, Watson. It is founded on the observances of
trifles." | |
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Found in the topic Observe.
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| "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man
could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really
merely commonplaces of existence." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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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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Found in the topic Vigilant.
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| "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the
Empire are irresistibly drained." | |
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Found in the topic Engineer.
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