Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHealthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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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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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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 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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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