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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

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The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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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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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

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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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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

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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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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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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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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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