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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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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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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

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It is quite a three-pipe problem.

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Anything is better than stagnation.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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What one man can invent, another can discover.

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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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