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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
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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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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