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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Eliminate How Impossible Improbable Matter Must Once Remains Truth Whatever You

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Horror Imagination Where

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Abhor Am Analysis Atmosphere Crave Dull Exaltation Existence Give Give Me Intricate Me Mental Mind Most My Own Own Problems Proper Rebels Routine Stagnation Work I Am

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Before Capital Data Mistake

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Axiom Been Important Infinitely Little Little Things Long Mine Most The Most Important Things

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

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Destructive Faculty Guess Habit Logical Never Shocking

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Genius Higher Instantly Itself Knows Mediocrity Nothing Talent Than

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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.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Attic Brain Choose Consider Empty Furniture Like Little Man Originally Stock You

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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.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Attic Away Brain Furniture Get He His Keep Library Likely Little Man Put Rest Should Use Wants Where

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Crime Difficult Most Track Which

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: May 22nd, 1859

Died: July 7th, 1930

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