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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

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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.

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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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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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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. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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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

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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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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

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