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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

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It remains one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of the war.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

A Study in Scarlet (1887)

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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