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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

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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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Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

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Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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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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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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