It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHow small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELife is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEAny truth is better than indefinite doubt.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELife, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEViolence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLESome people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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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