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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
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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?
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By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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..
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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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. (...)
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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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..
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jewels
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One must wait till it comes.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs
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Sir 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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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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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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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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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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