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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
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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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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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