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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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You see, but you do not observe.

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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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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. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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

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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

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