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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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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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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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