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You know my methods. Apply them.

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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

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

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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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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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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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The fair sex is your department.

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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

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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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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

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

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

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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