"You wish to put me in the dark.……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me."
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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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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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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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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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