Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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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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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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