No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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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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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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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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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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