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I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Boys, Simple, Men
Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Lost World”, p.8, House of Stratus

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Brain
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.157

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Steps, Grotesque, Horrible
1917 His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Love Is, Emotional, Cold
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.173, Lulu.com

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart, Brain, Glimpse
Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Morning, Book, Heart
Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.449, Wordsworth Editions

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

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mind, Answers
"The Final Problem". Book by Arthur Conan Doyle, www.theguardian.com. 1893.

I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

We have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Flower, Plant, Embellishment
"The Naval Treaty" (1893)

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

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. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Wings
Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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 age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Love, Risk, Age
Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle
Thinking, Two, Brain
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.93, eKitap Projesi

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Underestimate, Exaggeration, Oneself

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Strong, Men, Weak Man
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, Musical, Bells
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.1971, Delphi Classics

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Natural Talent, Done
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Personality, Portraits

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Nice, Dark, Fog
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.967, Race Point Publishing

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Incidents, Grotesque, Cases
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.286, Lulu.com

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, Details, Attention
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Thinking, Instinct, Our Future
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2242, Wildside Press LLC

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. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Air, Idlers
A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Art, Fall, Wrestling
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.372, GENERAL PRESS

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Lying, Humorous, Sarcasm
Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.230, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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