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«My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«I was helping Uncle Sam to make dollars. Maybe mine were not as good gold as his, but they looked as well and were cheaper to make.»
«Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.»
«Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«I am much mistaken, however, if he has not fine strata in his nature. He is capable of rising to heights as well as of sinking to depths.»
«I have no one to whom I can talk upon such matters. I am all driven inwards, and thought turns sour when one lets it stagnate like that.»
«Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.»
«As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.»
«The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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