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

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You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

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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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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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We have much to hope from the flowers.

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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

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