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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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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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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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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

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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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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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

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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

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