"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."
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"His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star."
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"I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple."
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"He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order."
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"Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears."
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"The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?"
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"How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
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"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
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"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."
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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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"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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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
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"Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?"
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"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"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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"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
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"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
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