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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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One must wait till it comes.
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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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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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The game is afoot.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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