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Arthur Conan Doyle
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Morality
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Wisdom
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Life Lessons
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Perspective
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Incomplete Knowledge
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Quotes On Topics
Metaphor
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Mindset
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Comparison
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Harmony
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Sorrow
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Action
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Intellectual Growth
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Science
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Evil
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Unexpected Development
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Authorship
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Boredom
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Deduction
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Criticism
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Classic
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Perspective
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Assistance
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Mankind
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Existence
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“A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Beauty
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Appreciation
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Age
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Passion
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Human Nature
“She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Beauty
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Goodness
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Intelligence
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Compliment
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Character Description
“And now let us talk about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all minor matters until to-morrow.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Literature
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Conversation
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Priorities
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Intellectual Discussion
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Time Management
“The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Skepticism
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Rationality
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Supernatural
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Worldview
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Pragmatism
“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Exhaustion
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Metaphor
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Energy
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Futility
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Human Condition
“The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Marriage
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Humor
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Odd Behavior
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Domestic Dispute
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Human Quirks
“The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Investigation
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Police
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Professionalism
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Detective Work
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Law Enforcement
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagination
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Mystery
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Horror
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Creativity
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Psychological Insight
“There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature
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Invigoration
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Sea
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Weather
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Physical Sensation
“This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Justice
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Forgiveness
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Rehabilitation
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Problem-solving
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Moral Decision
“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Meaning
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Universe
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Philosophy
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Human Condition
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Existential Questions
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Human Mind
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Science
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Focus
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Nature
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Personal Matters
“Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Commonplace
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Nature
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Perception
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Uniqueness
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Observation
“The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canada
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Nostalgia
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Nature
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Personal Connection
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Patriotism
“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world." a.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Wisdom
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Danger
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Women
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Literary Reference
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Life Lessons
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence
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Karma
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Justice
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Consequences
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Moral Philosophy
“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Unusual Sight
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Luxury
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Exotic Pets
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Wealth Display
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Peculiar Objects
“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Legacy
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Ambition
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Authorship
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Literary Creation
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Personal Goals
“Misfortunes never come single.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Misfortune
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Adversity
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Bad Luck
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Life Challenges
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Murphy’s Law
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Danger
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Courage
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Stupidity
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Self-preservation
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Realism
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