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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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horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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Violence recoils on the violent.

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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

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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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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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Anything is better than stagnation.

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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

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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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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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