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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
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!
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle