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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.
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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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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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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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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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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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Accounts are not quite settled between us, said she, with a passion that equaled my own. I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first now you must test the other.
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