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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
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I should have more faith, he said I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
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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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