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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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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Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion that equaled my own. I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first now you must test the other.
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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.
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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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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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