"It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?"
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
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"There is nothing like first-hand evidence."
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"The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . ."
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"We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know."
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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."
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"Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories."
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"The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it."
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"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."
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"The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men."
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"And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents."
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"if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death."
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"So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action."
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"It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before."
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"Hot hate is twin brother to hot love."
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"Even the best of us are thrown off some- times."
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"There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."
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"When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities."
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"It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air."
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"How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!"
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