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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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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

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

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The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

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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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It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

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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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It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

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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 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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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.

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Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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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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