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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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 am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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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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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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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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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
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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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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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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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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 may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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