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Before Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
- He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any…
- In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than…
- Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest…
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
- As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in…
- Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit…
- Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before…
- You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for…
- There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and…
- To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
- I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he.…
- It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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