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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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Novelist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Sir A. Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan
Sir Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
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