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This is what Sherlock Holmes actually "said":
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
From The Sign of the Four, pg. 41. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. - M.Twain 
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Is it possible to eliminate the impossible when in principe everything is always possible, though less probable? 
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' -John Keats 
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Um, and why do you aver this so vehemently, Jackie ma chère? (oops, did I skip a thread somewhere and the subject is evident to everybody else  )
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Is it possible to eliminate the impossible when in principe everything is always possible, though less probable?
Probable, possible, limitless
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why do you aver this so vehemently Oh, we had a thread or two a long time ago mentioning some variations on this saying, and how it has gotten twisted and changed; and I recently decided it was time I read some Arthur Conan Doyle. So when I saw the phrase in its originality, I thought I'd post it for the edification of all...'s'all. 
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why do you aver this so vehemently Oh, we had a thread or two a long time ago mentioning some variations on this saying, and how it has gotten twisted and changed; and I recently decided it was time I read some Arthur Conan Doyle. So when I saw the phrase in its originality, I thought I'd post it for the edification of all...'s'all.
Everything's according to Doyle.
TEd
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formerly known as etaoin...
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This is what Sherlock Holmes actually "said":
however improbable
-ron (chopped liver) o.
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This is what Sherlock Holmes actually "said":
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth?" - The Sign of the Four
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
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Conan Doyle wrote in the period before Goedel, when everything was much simpler..
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> Conan Doyle wrote in the period
angels on the head of a pin, eh?
formerly known as etaoin...
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angels on the head of a pin, eh?
This was still a whole lot earlier
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chopped liver Oops! Sorry--reckon I kind of lost my mind, there. But I was so excited to come across it for myself...
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