To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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