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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

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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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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

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'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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

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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

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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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