Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Running Quotes, Skulls Quotes

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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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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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

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I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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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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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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‎A change of work is the best rest.

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One must wait till it comes.

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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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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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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

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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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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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