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“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“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.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Sir Francis, Sir Francis, Sir Francis is come;”
—Unknown. Upon Sir Francis Drake’s Return from His Voyage about the World, and the Queen’s Meeting Him (l. 1)
“You bet I’m shy. I’m a shyster lawyer!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, responding to Lucille Briggs’s (Thelma Todd)
““Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)