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If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

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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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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

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Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

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

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