To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAs a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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