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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Passion, Picnics, Firsts
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5406, Delphi Classics

‎A change of work is the best rest.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.120, Broadview Press

...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Lying, Twilight, Heart
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.8, 谷月社

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Destruction, Accepting, Interest

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Rocks, Law, Snakes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4043, Delphi Classics

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Song, Autumn, Light
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2052, Delphi Classics

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Common, Guides, Deductions
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.88, Courier Corporation

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mother, Often Is, Imagination
Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Art, Book, Eight
Arthur Conan DOYLE (2010). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.690, Omnibus

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Math, Water, Logic
Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Events, Literature, Facts
"The Five Orange Pips" (1891). The key words here are "in all its bearings" and "thoroughly." In real life, of course, it's deucedly difficult.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Data, Temptation, Form
Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Life, Interesting, Littles

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Arthur Conan Doyle
School, Men, Agency
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Book, Men, Hands
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Wells
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.301, Courier Dover Publications

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?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Fashion, People, Credit
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4440, Delphi Classics

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Arthur Conan Doyle
Silly, Adventure, Noble
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The adventure of the noble bachelor (low cost). Limited edition”, p.5, Arthur Conan Doyle

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Arthur Conan Doyle
Science, Medicine, Needs
Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.86, Fireship Press

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Thinking, Mouths, Sulky
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.14, Lulu.com

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Blood, Devil, Agents
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

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. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mistake, Lying, Special
Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Tombstone, Steel, Blades
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Thinking, Secret, Mysterious
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.538, Race Point Publishing

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Moon, Differences, Sun
A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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