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You see, but you do not observe.

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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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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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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

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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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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

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