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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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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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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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