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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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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

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"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.

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

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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

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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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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

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