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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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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Edinburgh
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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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 stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
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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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My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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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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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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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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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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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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