What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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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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A change of work is the best rest.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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