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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. View quote
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I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life. View quote
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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. View quote
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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. View quote
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‎A change of work is the best rest. View quote
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It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. View quote
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. View quote
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I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. View quote
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. View quote
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Anything is better than stagnation. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. View quote
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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. View quote
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. View quote
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? View quote
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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? View quote
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather. View quote
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I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being. View quote
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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. View quote
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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. View quote
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. View quote
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. View quote
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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law. View quote
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He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king. View quote
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