"Still, it is an error to argue in……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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