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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.
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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
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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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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
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