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Detective fiction15 quotes
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891All 15 quotes →