There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAt the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is my business to know what other people do not know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWork is the best antidote to sorrow.
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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEEducation never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEJealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAs a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLETo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELove 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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