"You mentioned your name as if I should……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you."
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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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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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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.
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And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for…
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant,…
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Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so…
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I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart…
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And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief,…
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