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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

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

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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 association. I was alone.

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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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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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

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