British - Writer | May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
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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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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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