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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.



My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.



... when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.



I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.



Where there is no imagination there is no horror.