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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
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Sir A. Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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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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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed that snakes have talked that women have been turned into salt that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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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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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 is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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The fair sex is your department.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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