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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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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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Anything is better than stagnation.

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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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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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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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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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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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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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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