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I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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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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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

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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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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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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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I love and am loved by a better man than he.

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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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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

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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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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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