The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe future was with Fate. The present was our own.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECritics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA dog reflects the family life.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOf all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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 DOYLEThere are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLETo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLESo all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou see, but you do not observe.
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 DOYLEEvil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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