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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
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