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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

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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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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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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

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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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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

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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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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

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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 made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

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