It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOf all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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The game is afoot.
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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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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Love 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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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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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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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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