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Arthur Conan Doyle Inspirational Quotes (239)

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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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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
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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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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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