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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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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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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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