Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.”That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
My dear Watson,” said [Sherlock Holmes], “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
There is a danger there – a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
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