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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, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“presume nothing”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I am lost without my Boswell.

[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle