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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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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine bottle.
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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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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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I think that I had better go, Holmes. Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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