Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Cold Quotes, Should Quotes

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

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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

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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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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

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

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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.

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If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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

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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

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

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You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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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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