"[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on…
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from…
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every…
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