Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOf all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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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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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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 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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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