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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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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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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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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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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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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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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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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
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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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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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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 has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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