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62f8f5c Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
e482d27 I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
43ce3f9 How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! nature petty-ambitions strange-errands strivings morning sherlock-holmes london sunrise Arthur Conan Doyle
090c961 I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? futility electricity exhaustion energy sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
0e1ad5d There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen. music violin sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
6713843 No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. Arthur Conan Doyle
42feb08 My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. Arthur Conan Doyle
0132653 What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." Arthur Conan Doyle
617cff3 Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot." sherlock Arthur Conan Doyle
346bec9 No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes" sherlock sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
291786c Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
79453b5 It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
e662874 To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.... And yet th.. Arthur Conan Doyle
8729d2b The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b181c6c presume nothing Arthur Conan Doyle
26b118b Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. violence Arthur Conan Doyle
2de2177 I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. Arthur Conan Doyle
f87964f Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours." Arthur Conan Doyle
24f0d1f You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. methods trifles investigation mysteries sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
a8820cb Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91e4b3f It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. stupidity wisdom-quote valor Arthur Conan Doyle
702df23 It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. love rural-life john-watson countryside vile sherlock-holmes experience smiling beautiful london sin Arthur Conan Doyle
93788cb I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? the-sign-of-four sherlock-holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
84b6a89 By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6ce7669 It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. science skull sherlock moriarty morbid study Arthur Conan Doyle
76f8da7 Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. Arthur Conan Doyle
f88456f I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?' 'Not in the least,' I answered in astonishment. 'Ah, that's lucky,' he said, and not another word would he utter that night. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
969f6c4 There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words. Arthur Conan Doyle
e755295 If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Arthur Conan Doyle
cd0deea That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. 'You appear to be astonished,' he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. 'Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.' 'To forget it!' 'You see,' he explained, 'I consider that a man's brain is like a little empty attic, and you hav.. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9ad82a1 Anything is better than stagnation. Arthur Conan Doyle
58720eb Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. intelligence holmes sherlock thriller fool Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
cae4896 It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8f305a9 Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different Arthur Conan Doyle
b19435d You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson." Arthur Conan Doyle
1913f28 if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. Arthur Conan Doyle
673197f I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me. misanthropy Arthur Conan Doyle
05b8619 They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work." sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
e043dcb Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. Arthur Conan Doyle
f85c941 The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. Arthur Conan Doyle
58d8e2b There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Arthur Conan Doyle
ba3f9cb The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? mankind truth devil evil Arthur Conan Doyle
5965210 The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
cc60fee while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle
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