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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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

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Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

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…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

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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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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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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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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

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