It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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...
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!"
It was worth a wound -- it...
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presume nothing
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you s...
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional ...
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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Hom...
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is a...
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but...
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My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child b...
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a speciali...
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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he i...
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You see, but you do not observe
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My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c...
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice...
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The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
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Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking int...
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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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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to ...
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
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I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.
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I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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The game is afoot.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and su...
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth fo...
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...
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When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
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To begin at the beginning.
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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there ...
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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes...
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politic...
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Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
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