British - Writer | May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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