My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés philosophical
A change of work is the best rest.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés work work-is-worship
It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés humor
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes mystery intrigue
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time, his gaze fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes fiction mystery
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes baker-street john-watson cocaine-and-ambition
Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?
Arthur Conan DoyleMy mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés happiness food violin
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