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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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