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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.
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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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)
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