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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

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

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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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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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

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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

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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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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

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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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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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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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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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

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