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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.
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The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
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I think that I had better go, Holmes. Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine bottle.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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