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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
– Arthur Conan Doyle

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  3. 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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  5. 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
  6. I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson – Arthur Conan Doyle
  7. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  8. I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  12. Anything is better than stagnation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. (…) 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
  14. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. 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
  16. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. 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
  18. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle
  23. 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
  24. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  26. It’s every man’s business to see justice done. – 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
  31. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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  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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