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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Light, Giving, People

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1557, GENERAL PRESS

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Time, Learning, Sight

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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hands, Giving, Reassuring

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Science, History, Childhood

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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Running, Skulls, Museums

Arthur Conan DOYLE (2009). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.310, Omnibus

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Book, Reading, Writing

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.843, Wordsworth Editions

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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Brave, Imbeciles, Bulldogs

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.36, Zillmann Publishing

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Halloween, Night, Men

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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Evil, Girlhood

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.280, Jazzybee Verlag

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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Wife, Bottles, Credit

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

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Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hands, Violin, Evening

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.433, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ocean, Blood, Wind

Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Sir Nigel and the White Company”, p.137, Fireship Press

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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Looks, Proof, Suspicion

Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1074, W. W. Norton & Company

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Doctors, Lost

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.166, Race Point Pub

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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Names, Scotland

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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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.

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Dog, Two, Yellow

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Ultimate Collection: 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories & 5 Extracanonical Works”, p.345, BoD - Books on Demand

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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Philosophy, Book, Ignorance

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1316, GENERAL PRESS

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"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Europe, Mind

"The Hound of the Baskervilles".

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To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dark, Son, Evil

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cat, Animal, Three

Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Conan Doyle Weirdbook”, p.136, Lulu.com

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The fair sex is your department.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sex, Dr Watson, Department

"The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)

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Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Family, Wife, Steel

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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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Simple, Doctors, Views

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.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Law, Energy

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.51, Arthur Conan Doyle

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"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Friendship, Failure, Drawing

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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