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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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
Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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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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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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 ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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