There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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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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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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