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This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

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

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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

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

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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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

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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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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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

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