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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.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
– Arthur Conan Doyle

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  3. (…) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. – Arthur Machen
  5. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  7. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  8. There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  12. I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson – Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  14. I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. Anything is better than stagnation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! – Arthur Conan Doyle
  18. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  19. What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  20. It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels – chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  23. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  24. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle
  26. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  27. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  28. It’s every man’s business to see justice done. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  29. Who knows, Watson? Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  32. I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  33. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  35. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  36. No violence, gentlemen -” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  38. To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  39. I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  40. I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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