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When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)

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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 (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four

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The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four
The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), A Study in Scarlet
I think as a result of my own personal experiences, that the accusations of fraud against mediums have been much exaggerated.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Original letter from Menzies Hotel Melbourne to unkown addressee

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