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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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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
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I should have more faith, he said I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
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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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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
Arthur Conan Doyle
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
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