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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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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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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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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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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
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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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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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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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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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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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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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It is more than possible it is probable.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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