Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s every man’s business to see justice done.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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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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