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• I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Boys, Simple, Men

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Lost World”, p.8, House of Stratus

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• A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Brain

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.157

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• But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love Is, Emotional, Cold

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.173, Lulu.com

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• For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Brain, Glimpse

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

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• There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steps, Grotesque, Horrible

  1917 His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

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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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Book, Heart

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.449, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Answers

  "The Final Problem". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle, www.theguardian.com. 1893.

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• I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

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• We have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Plant, Embellishment

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

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• Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Risk, Age

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Wings

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Two, Brain

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.93, eKitap Projesi

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• To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Underestimate, Exaggeration, Oneself

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• The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

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• The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Musical, Bells

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.1971, Delphi Classics

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• No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Natural Talent, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Personality, Portraits

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• The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Incidents, Grotesque, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.286, Lulu.com

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• Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Nice, Dark, Fog

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.967, Race Point Publishing

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• Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Details, Attention

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

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• We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Instinct, Our Future

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2242, Wildside Press LLC

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• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Air, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Writing, Obviousness, Done

  "The Red-Headed League" (1891)

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• This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.230, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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