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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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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 inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
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Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
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You know my methods. Apply them.
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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with 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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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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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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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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