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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.

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

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  2. 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
  3. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  7. 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
  8. I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson – Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  14. Anything is better than stagnation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! – Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  20. 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
  21. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. 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
  23. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  24. The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  26. Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  27. Who knows, Watson? Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  30. I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  32. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  33. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  34. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  35. No violence, gentlemen -” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! – Arthur Conan Doyle
  36. My job is to know what other people do not know. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  37. I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  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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