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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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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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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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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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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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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
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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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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.
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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 devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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