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0dc8588 It is more than possible; it is probable. Arthur Conan Doyle
89508a3 He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clear" "Footprints?" "A man's or a woman's?" Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of s gigantic hound!" -- Arthur Conan Doyle
0bfd736 I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. laziness london watson Arthur Conan Doyle
3290464 When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder queer wonder Arthur Conan Doyle
e0bd4d2 He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. moriarty sherlock-holmes spider Arthur Conan Doyle
db06c4b I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. Arthur Conan Doyle
36706ee You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me. Arthur Conan Doyle
111e7ad It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
80195bb He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament w.. john-watson love sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
071b6d4 There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. Arthur Conan Doyle
2952132 Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? Arthur Conan Doyle
0cf1d1d I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall." doctor-watson escape late-visit scrambling sherlock-holmes unconventional Arthur Conan Doyle
75e99f0 Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. Arthur Conan Doyle
7e9a2f0 His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. Arthur Conan Doyle
a921c60 There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. Arthur Conan Doyle
bab5bbf Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1954a23 There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. Arthur Conan Doyle
e44960f Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets." sarcasm sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
2cc961d Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)--We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends. Arthur Conan Doyle
a387779 Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fe.. Arthur Conan Doyle
0ab7d19 We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. Arthur Conan Doyle
3f8004c Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. Arthur Conan Doyle
e20accb It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. Arthur Conan Doyle
f1cb9c8 Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust.. humour sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
2cd83a2 His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. Arthur Conan Doyle
2a60397 Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. cocaine-and-ambition john-watson sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
069b726 It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. blessings flowers goodness hope inspirational sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
f32cc6d The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. disguise method-acting pretense role-playing sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
b0dbdd1 Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. Arthur Conan Doyle
b39281a This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. Arthur Conan Doyle
fcc735a That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. Arthur Conan Doyle
871003b There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ce313c3 It is easy to be wise after the event. true wisdom Arthur Conan Doyle
9874143 Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristi.. gems greed jewels murder precious-stones sherlock-holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2a54865 To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. Arthur Conan Doyle
0cdb015 One must wait till it comes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
74e2796 To begin at the beginning. Arthur Conan Doyle
6b584f8 Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. change character jealousy nature transformation Arthur Conan Doyle
500d879 Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. Arthur Conan Doyle
a7ccb3f I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being. Arthur Conan Doyle
f9502e9 He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
e7d7012 I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. john-watson pistol-practice sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
445e24c Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his .]" motivation raison-d-être sherlock-holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
e5a0fc9 What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever." Arthur Conan Doyle
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