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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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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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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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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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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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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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