There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The game is afoot.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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