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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.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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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.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Ghosts Loves Old Our Worst

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: May 22nd, 1859

Died: July 7th, 1930

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