Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22 1859 – July 7 1930) was a British writer and physician, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir A. Conan Doyle
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' — Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet"."
"It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it."
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"By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me."
