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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) The Sign of Four, 1890
- The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- You see, but you do not observe.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925), Eugenics Review, April 1914
- There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), in a telegram, 1919
- The chief business of the American people is business.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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