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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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

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

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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

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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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

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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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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

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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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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

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It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

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

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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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