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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.
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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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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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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It is all in the way of professional experience.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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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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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
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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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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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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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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
Arthur Conan Doyle
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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