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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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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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