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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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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."
"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius."
"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important."
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for?"
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us."
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