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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
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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I think that I had better go, Holmes. Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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