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I have taken to living by my wits.

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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

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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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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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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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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

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But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

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‎A change of work is the best rest.

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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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