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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

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If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

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I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

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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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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

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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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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

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