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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

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There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

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Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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

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

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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

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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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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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