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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?
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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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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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