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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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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 an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

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

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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

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When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

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Violence recoils on the violent.

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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

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