Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLENever trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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One must wait till it comes.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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