There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELife, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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 game is afoot.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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