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Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion that equaled my own. I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first now you must test the other.
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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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
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It is more than possible it is probable.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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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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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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