Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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What a lovely thing a rose is!
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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.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.