I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLESome people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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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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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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