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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEverything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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