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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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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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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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