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• There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Fool, Troublesome

  "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels".

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• The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Names

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

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• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Morning, Ambition

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorrow, Holmes, Dear

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.871, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Dogs don't make mistakes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, Dog

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.392

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes, Late

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.146

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• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nature, Science, Ideas

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Knowledge, Useless

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Poison, Belts

  "The lost world; The poison belt: being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor Challenger".

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• The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Lying, Greatness

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.99, Broadview Press

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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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, Trying, Helping

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “Through the Magic Door: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brain, Appendix, Mere

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1057, Race Point Pub

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• What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Believe, People, Done

  "Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear".

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• It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Book, Small Numbers

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8373, Delphi Classics

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• We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Our Actions, Command

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: free audiobook included: Illustrated and Unabridged”, p.166, Wizio Publishing

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Eye, Light, Speak

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1095, GENERAL PRESS

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• Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Earth, Sides, Danger

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1878, Delphi Classics

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• When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Matter, Impossible, Unlikely

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• Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Character, Strange

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II”, p.455, Bantam Classics

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• There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Race

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1779, Delphi Classics

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• My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Self, Departure, Modesty

  "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle (p. 638), 2007.

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• The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Track, Literature, Crime

  Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Would Be, World, Dull

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (1926).

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• You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Method, Holmes, Observation

  1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'.

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Two, Brain

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.93, eKitap Projesi

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