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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
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It is all in the way of professional experience.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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