Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Law Quotes

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

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When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

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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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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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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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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

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