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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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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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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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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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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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