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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed that snakes have talked that women have been turned into salt that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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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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