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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
Arthur Conan Doyle
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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.
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By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
Arthur Conan Doyle
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Violence recoils on the violent.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
Arthur Conan Doyle