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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may ...more

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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No ghosts need

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonpla...more

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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

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He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false po...more

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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; th...more

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[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement a...more

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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and ...more

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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--""Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Hol...more

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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow ...more