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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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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
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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 setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine bottle.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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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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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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