"Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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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…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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More Desultory Quotes
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based…
— Auguste Comte
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There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held…
— Samuel Johnson
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might…
— William Cowper
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet…
— James Boswell
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous…
— MrAwesome
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of…
— Bernard Cornwell
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