Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEPicnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLENever trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI 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 DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECritics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWork is the best antidote to sorrow.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELife is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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