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So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I have taken to living by my wits.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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criminals
detectives
intellect
london
sherlock-holmes
superiority
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild and menacing.
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the-hound-of-the-baskervilles
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
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reassurance
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.
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sherlock-holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "If I can be of use." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling ..
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reality
truth
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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13a6bce
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Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir |
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It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri", the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees." --
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god
humor
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
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sherlock
snuff
win
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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There were no footmarks.' 'Meaning that you saw none?' 'I assure you, sir, that there were none.' 'My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.
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logic
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me."
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir |
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Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness..
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Watson: When do we start?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-wisps of the imagination.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I am an Irishman, sir." "Irish Irish?" "Yes, sir." --
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The Frenchman sat up with that strange energy which comes often as the harbinger of death. "(...) This I tell you - I, Raoul de la Roche Pierre de Bras, dying upon the field of honour. And now kiss me, sweet friend, and lay me back, for the mists closes round me and I am gone!" With tender hands the squire [Nigel] lowered his comrade's head, but even as he did so there came a choking rush of blood, and the soul had passed. So died a gallant..
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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eloquence
investigate
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Mr Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand you have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of society' 'No, I am descending.' 'I beg pardon?' 'My last client of the sort was a King.' 'Oh really! I had no idea. And which king?' 'The King of Scandinavia' 'What! Had he lost his wife?' 'You can u..
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork..
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low laugh and put his lips to my ear. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon."
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir |
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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That was it, sir.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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intelligence
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. "Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced. Just make a few alterations in that report which you were writing, and they will understand how hard it is to throw dust in the eyes of Inspector Lestrade." "And you don't want your name to appear?" "Not at all. The work is its own reward. Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some d..
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..." -Sherlock Holmes- -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips-"
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crime
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand."
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: 'What you say is natural, but if you had seen what I have seen you might alter your opinion'. Perhaps sometime you will be able to look into the matter, for your high position in the scientific world would give your opinion great weight.
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir."
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Arthur Conan Doyle |