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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More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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One must wait till it comes.
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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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