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'To the curious incide...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the a...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs f...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income o...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Era peor la herida... eran peor muchas heridas... que saber la profundidad de lealtad y amor que yac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-mo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE . . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that th...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
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