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“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: sherlock-holmes

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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth

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“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

tags: alleys, beautiful, countryside, experience, john-watson, london, love, rural-life, sherlock-holmes, sin, smiling, vile

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“Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

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“You know my methods. Apply them.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

tags: detection, investigation, methods, sherlock-holmes

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The Gothic Poets Society — 396 members — last activity Dec 31, 2024 07:03PM
Wits, Words & Spirits! Who Are We? We are a group of like minded individuals who haunt dark halls and cemeteries, armed with pens, books and black li ...more