Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Use Quotes, Comrade Quotes

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

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