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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

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You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting. ” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

Come, Doctors, Doubting, Fact, Simple, Views

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Men, Cabbage, Holy, Live, Pods, Grow

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Assertion, Atheism, Charity, Contention, Give, Giving

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.

Credit, Given, Good, Good Man, Men, Thinking

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.

Infer, Logic, Logician, Math, Niagara, Water

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Done, Heroism, Heroisms, Round, Waiting

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Excluded, Impossible, Inspirational, Maxim, Philosophy, Truth

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Covet, Fulsome, Intention, Moriarty, Skulls

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Destructive, Guess, Habit, Literature, Logic, Science

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Accepting, Destruction, Interest, Public

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Against, Back, Brain, Darkness, Europe, Powers

Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

Aware, Humorous, Husband, Lying, Wives

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Ancient, Book, Faint, Pleasant, Scent, Subtle

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

Human, Humorous, Race, Sapiens, Sarcasm

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

Claim, Eye, Humorous, Sarcasm, See, Serious

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.

Dog, Tunnels, Two, Wont, Yellow

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Believe, Consequence, Done, People

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Chains, Known, Life, Life Is, Links, Whenever

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Devote, Holmes, Interesting, Life, Littles, Presents

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Badly, Finds, May, Men, Realizing, Treated

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