The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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