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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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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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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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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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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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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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 am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? No, indeed! You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged. My dear fellow! I congrat- To Milverton's housemaid. My dear Holmes! I wanted information, Watson.
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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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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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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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