It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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