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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

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

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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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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 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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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

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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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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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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

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