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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
“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. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. 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.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
“You see, but you do not observe.”
― A Scandal in Bohemia
― A Scandal in Bohemia
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