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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Real, Lying, Greatness
Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.99, 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

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

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.

Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Husband, Lying, Humorous
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Lying, Wife, Inspire
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.834, Race Point Publishing

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Lying, Book, Sunshine
Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1443, W. W. Norton & Company

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