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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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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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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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