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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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
Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
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