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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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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 stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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It is quite a three-pipe problem.
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? No, indeed! You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged. My dear fellow! I congrat- To Milverton's housemaid. My dear Holmes! I wanted information, Watson.
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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