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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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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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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
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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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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
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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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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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