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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

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You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

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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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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

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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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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

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

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

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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 am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

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