"We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson."
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"If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!"
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"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."
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"There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you."
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"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn."
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"I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?"
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"He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody."
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""I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.""
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"We have much to hope from the flowers."
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"The fair sex is your department."
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"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces."
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"One must wait till it comes."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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"What one man can invent, another can discover."
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"No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes"
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms."
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"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
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"Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself."
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"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."
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