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

Sherlock Holmes

A Case of Identity

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Topic

Details The little things

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Case of Identity

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Strand Magazine. London: Sept. 1891.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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Interpretation and analysis Dreams

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Genre
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Language
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Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.

Another quote of the following type Precepts and axioms

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

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Journalism

Author

Walter Lippmann
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "Journalism and the Higher Law." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.