The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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