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Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

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

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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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 my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

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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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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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

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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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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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