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First Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.…
- You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the…
- He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected…
- There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
- Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle…
- I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
- When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
- You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one…
- The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My…
- Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
- Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had…
- There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…
- ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the…
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