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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.
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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Edinburgh
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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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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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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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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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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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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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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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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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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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