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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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It is quite a three-pipe problem.
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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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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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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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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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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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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