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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
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