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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

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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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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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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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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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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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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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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

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