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When we think how narrow and d...

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes...

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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I could not rest, Watson, I co...

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.

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There was something awesome in...

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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It's quite exciting,' said Sh...

It's quite exciting,' said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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I love and am loved by a bette...

I love and am loved by a better man than he.

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No man burdens his mind with s...

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

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I have taken to living by my w...

I have taken to living by my wits.

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It is stupidity rather than co...

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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It is with nations as it is wi...

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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I never can resist a touch of ...

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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There is nothing in which dedu...

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,' said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. 'It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives e

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This looks like one of those u...

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

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Depend upon it, there is nothi...

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee...

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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ЂЋA change of work is the best...

ЂЋA change of work is the best rest.

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It is not that I think or beli...

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

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The chief proof of man's real ...

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

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The Times is a paper which is ...

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

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To his eyes all seemed beautif...

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 leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.

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