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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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