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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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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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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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The fair sex is your department.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

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

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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

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