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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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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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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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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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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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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 soul is swayed by the waters.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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