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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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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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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

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Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

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Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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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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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

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The fair sex is your department.

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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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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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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

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