Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLECircumstantial 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.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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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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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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