Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELove is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECritics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEverything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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 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 DOYLEJealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEvil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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