It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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When 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.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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It 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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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