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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
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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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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