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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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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
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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.
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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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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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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? No, indeed! You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged. My dear fellow! I congrat- To Milverton's housemaid. My dear Holmes! I wanted information, Watson.
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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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The fair sex is your department.
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