"I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."
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"The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time."
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"The soul is swayed by the waters."
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"Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs."
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"Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction."
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"“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”"
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"There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"I have taken to living by my wits."
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"I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data."
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"Anything seems commonplace, once explained."
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"You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me."
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"I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me."
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"Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them."
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"The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."
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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
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"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic."
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"A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament."
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"The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter."
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"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic."
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"It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war."
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