You are right," he cried with an immense sigh of relief. "It is quite superficial." His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. "By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.


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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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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities ...
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One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve...
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That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travele...
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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky ...
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two ...
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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we we...
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The pub...
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I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...
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Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he. “I am.” “I ought to make you si...
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I am inclined to think--” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I be...
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You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
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My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
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It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
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Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
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The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
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A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
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I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
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My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
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It is easy to be wise after the event.
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
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He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept ...
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever ...
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ...
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Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in s...
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Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
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It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indee...
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I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes
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