Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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