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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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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Edinburgh
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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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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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
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I must apologize for calling so late, said he, and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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