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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
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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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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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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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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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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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 has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”
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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
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