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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem."
  • "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
  • "A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
  • "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
  • "His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
  • "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
  • "I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
  • "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
  • "I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
  • "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
  • "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
  • "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
  • "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
  • "Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
  • "Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
  • "Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
  • "The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
  • "There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact."
  • "There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."
  • "We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
  • "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
  • "Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
  • "Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
  • "Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
  • "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."


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