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

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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

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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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"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.

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You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

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

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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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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

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

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

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