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Where there is no imagination there is no horror. (imagination)
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. (unknown)
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. (work - idleness)
In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. (women)
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. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. (life)
I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. (logic)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. (facts)
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (truth)
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