I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEducation never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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The game is afoot.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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One must wait till it comes.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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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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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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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