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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

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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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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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You see, but you do not observe.

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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

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Violence recoils on the violent.

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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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

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It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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