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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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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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