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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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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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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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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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