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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

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It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

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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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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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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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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

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

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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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