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It's every man's business to s...

It's every man's business to see justice done.

Arthur Conan Doyle 469 quotes

Art in the blood is liable to ...

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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I think that I had better go, ...

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 have wrought my simple plan ...

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle 469 quotes

On general principles, it is b...

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

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I do hate the City of London! ...

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

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As I turned away, I saw Holmes...

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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So it was, my dear Watson, tha...

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

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I felt Holmes's hand steal int...

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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The soul is swayed by the wate...

The soul is swayed by the waters.

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I rose to go, but Holmes caugh...

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

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There is no satisfaction in ve...

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

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They say that genius is an inf...

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,' he remarked with a smile. 'It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

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That which is clearly known ha...

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

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The stage lost a fine actor, e...

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

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I had hardly expected so dolic...

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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Populus me sibilat, at mihi pl...

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

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Really, Watson, you excel your...

Really, Watson, you excel yourself,' said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. 'I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

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If my future were black, it wa...

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

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You know my methods. Apply the...

You know my methods. Apply them.

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