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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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I should have more faith, he said I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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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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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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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? No, indeed! You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged. My dear fellow! I congrat- To Milverton's housemaid. My dear Holmes! I wanted information, Watson.
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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