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Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

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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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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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

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

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

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

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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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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

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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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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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