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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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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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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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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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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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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It is all in the way of professional experience.
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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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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