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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
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It is more than possible it is probable.
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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I should have more faith, he said I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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