The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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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 not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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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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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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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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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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