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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

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

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

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

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

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