872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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    Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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    Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind. Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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    It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

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    Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence.

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    A man loses his fortune; he gains earnestness. His eyesight goes; it leads him to a spirituality...We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

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