Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
strong cheer house
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
underestimate exaggeration oneself
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
rocks water gazing
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
dramatic
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
lying humorous sarcasm
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
coffee land sandwiches
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
beautiful eye years
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.
real lying greatness
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
terror known
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
thinking doctors holmes
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
boys simple men
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
hands giving reassuring
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
use institutions valuable
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
men may realizing
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.