You see, but you do not observe.
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Arthur Conan Doyle quotes & passages
3 passages by Arthur Conan Doyle, from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
About Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish writer and physician (1859–1930), creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887).
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It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.”
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