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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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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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