The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLENo man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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 world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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