Tag: Arthur Conan Doyle
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle