A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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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 Quote

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

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 Quote

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

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.
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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.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

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

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
- Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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