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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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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.
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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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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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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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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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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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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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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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