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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

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I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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Anything is better than stagnation.

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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

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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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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

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

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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

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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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