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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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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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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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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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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
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The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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