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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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