When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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 a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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.
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