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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

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You know my methods. Apply them.

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

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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

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The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

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

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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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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

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