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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

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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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I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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

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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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