Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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One must wait till it comes.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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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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You see, but you do not observe.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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