"I suppose I shall have to compound a……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes"
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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 Compound Quotes
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
— Athol Fugard
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,…
— Charles Dickens
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full…
— Freeman Dyson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most…
— Ambrose Bierce
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