The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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