"You see, but you do not observe."
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"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
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"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."
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"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
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"It’s every man’s business to see justice done."
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"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
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"Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies."
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"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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"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name."
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"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
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"Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls."
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"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill."
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
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"At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society."
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"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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"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
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"It is not that I think or believe, but that I know."
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"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know."
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"To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously."
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"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
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