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Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer
Born: May 22, 1859
Died: Jul 7, 1930
Before Impossible Truth Whatever Which You
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth You Impossible Matter Whatever Once Must Remains How Improbable Eliminate
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
Work Me Intelligence Problems Mind Own Analysis Intricate Abhor Atmosphere Exaltation Mental Give Proper Give Me My Own Most Am Dull Existence Crave Stagnation Rebels Routine
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle
Mistake Before Data Capital
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle
Wisdom Little Things Long Important Mine Most Been Infinitely The Most Important Little Things Axiom
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth Truth Is Better Doubt Indefinite Than Any
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth Recoil He Another Does Falls Pit Which Violence Violent
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. Arthur Conan Doyle
Time Knowledge You Before Depend Every Addition Out Something Facts Highest Knew Importance Forget Useful Useless Therefore
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. Arthur Conan Doyle
Water Seen Drop Other Possibility Atlantic Having Could Without Heard Infer Niagara
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth You Impossible Whatever Must Remains However Improbable Eliminated
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
Life Strange Imagination Extraordinary Daring Must More Combinations Always Go Effects Itself Than Effort Any Which Far
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
Face Difficult Crimes Rule Bizarre More Mysterious Puzzling Most Identify Said Proves Just Which Commonplace Holmes Really Your Less Thing
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth You Impossible Whatever Must Remains Said How However Improbable Often Eliminated
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
Events Single Once Would Follow Only Bearing Fact Results Had He Ideal Also Been Led Up Which Deduce Chain Shown
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime Difficult Most Track Which
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge Ignorance Remarkable His
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature Broad Our Must Ideas Interpret
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. Arthur Conan Doyle
Old Our Ghosts Worst Loves
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Arthur Conan Doyle
Women Own Secretive Like Women Are Naturally
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
Truth You Impossible Old Whatever Mine Must Remains Excluded However Improbable Maxim
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. Arthur Conan Doyle
Me Problem Factor Mere Client Unit
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
Me You Chapter Will First Intolerable Must Finds Only First One Sure Am Been Length Us Really Page Agree Second
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. Arthur Conan Doyle
Suppressed Sense Some Proportion Facts Observed Least Just Them Should Treating
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. Arthur Conan Doyle
Life World Never Had He Longer Over Most Until Wrote Although His Years Sir Than Working Brethren Fortunately Novel Career
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Arthur Conan Doyle
Great Drained London Empire Idlers Which Cesspool

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