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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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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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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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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 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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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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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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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 quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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It is more than possible it is probable.
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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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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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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