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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

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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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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

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

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

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When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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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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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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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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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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