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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. ↗

— Laurie R. King

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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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