Tag: Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle