Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy – those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.
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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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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
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The soul is swayed by the waters.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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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.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.