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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

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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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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

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