I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLETo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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A dog reflects the family life.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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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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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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