Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Hands Quotes

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

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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

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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 fair sex is your department.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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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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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

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