Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Seems Quotes

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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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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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

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You know my methods. Apply them.

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Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

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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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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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