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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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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.
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I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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