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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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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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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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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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 world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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