Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Seems Quotes

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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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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This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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One must wait till it comes.

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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.

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