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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: detection, investigation, methods, mysteries, sherlock-holmes, trifles
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: mystery, sherlock, sherlock-holmes
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  • #6
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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  • #10
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
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  • #13
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: easy, elementary, sherlock-holmes, simple
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The game is afoot.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: shakespearean, sherlock-holmes
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  • #19
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
    tags: memory, reading, trivia
    481 likes

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  • #20
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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  • #21
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
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  • #22
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
    tags: convenience, exigence, favor, friends, friendship
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  • #24
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth
    438 likes

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  • #25
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata
    tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes
    650 likes

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  • #26
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: observation
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: reason
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: freedom, homes, love, love-at-first-sight, obsession, sadness, sherlock-holmes, slavery
    234 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: life
    96 likes

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  • #31
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    237 likes



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