All Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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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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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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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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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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