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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

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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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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

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

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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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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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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

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You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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

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