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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes
«Without, the sun shines bright and the birds are singing amid the ivy on the drooping beeches. Their choice is made, and they turn away hand-in-hand, with their backs to the darkness and their faces to the light.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«You know that he came into his uncle's money a little time ago, and after a first delirious outbreak, he has now relapsed into that dead heavy state of despair which is caused by having everything which one can wish for. How absurd are the ambitions of life when I think that I, who am fairly happy and as keen as a razor edge, should be struggling for that which I can see has brought neither profit nor happiness to him!»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«Still, I have no love for the cloth. Just as cotton, which is in itself the most harmless substance in the world, becomes dangerous on being dipped into nitric acid, so the mildest of mortals is to be feared if he is once soaked in sectarian religion.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be made out of what had up to that time been th»
«I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick, and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.