Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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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The game is afoot.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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