It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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 DOYLEWhat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is my business to know what other people do not know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou see, but you do not observe.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLESo all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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