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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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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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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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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
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It is quite a three-pipe problem.
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