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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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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It remains one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of the war.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

The Boer War (1902)

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

A Study in Scarlet (1887)

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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