"Several incidents in my life have convinced me……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."
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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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