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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

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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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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

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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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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

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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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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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

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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

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