To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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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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The game is afoot.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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