I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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One must wait till it comes.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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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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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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