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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

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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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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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The fair sex is your department.

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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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