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The future was with Fate. The present was our 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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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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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 mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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