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A Study in Scarlet quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle

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“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“To a great mind, nothing is little” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence . . . The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“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 the power of speech was arrived at.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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