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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEKeep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe game is afoot.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAs a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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