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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Passion, Picnics, Firsts

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5406, Delphi Classics

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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Errors, Data, Finding Yourself

"Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories".

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‎A change of work is the best rest.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Sign of Four”, p.120, Broadview Press

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Destruction, Accepting, Interest

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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Rocks, Law, Snakes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4043, Delphi Classics

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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Song, Autumn, Light

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2052, Delphi Classics

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Common, Guides, Deductions

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mother, Often Is, Imagination

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Art, Book, Eight

Arthur Conan DOYLE (2010). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.690, Omnibus

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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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Math, Water, Logic

Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Events, Literature, Facts

"The Five Orange Pips" (1891). The key words here are "in all its bearings" and "thoroughly." In real life, of course, it's deucedly difficult.

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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Data, Temptation, Form

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, Interesting, Littles

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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Arthur Conan Doyle

School, Men, Agency

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Book, Men, Hands

Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Wells

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.301, Courier Dover Publications

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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?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fashion, People, Credit

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4440, Delphi Classics

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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Arthur Conan Doyle

Silly, Adventure, Noble

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The adventure of the noble bachelor (low cost). Limited edition”, p.5, Arthur Conan Doyle

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Arthur Conan Doyle

Science, Medicine, Needs

Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.86, Fireship Press

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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Mouths, Sulky

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.14, Lulu.com

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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Blood, Devil, Agents

Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistake, Lying, Special

Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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Steel True, Blade Straight.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tombstone, Steel, Blades

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Secret, Mysterious

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.538, Race Point Publishing

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Moon, Differences, Sun

A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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Born: May 22, 1859
Died: July 7, 1930
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