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Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.


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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and su...
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth fo...
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...
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When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
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To begin at the beginning.
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there ...
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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes...
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politic...
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Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities ...
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One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve...
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That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travele...
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky ...
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two ...
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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we we...
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The pub...
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I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...
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Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he. “I am.” “I ought to make you si...
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I am inclined to think--” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I be...
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You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
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My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
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It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
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Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
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The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
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A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
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I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
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My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
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It is easy to be wise after the event.
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
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He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept ...
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever ...
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ...
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Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in s...
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Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
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It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indee...
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