I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWork is the best antidote to sorrow.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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One must wait till it comes.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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