There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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