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- "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging…
- Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,…
- 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…
- When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
- 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…
- Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
- 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.…
- To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy…
- ...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one…
- Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,…
- All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
- Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
- If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking…
- 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…
- 'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness…
- Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and…
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to…
- Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
- London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
- A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put…
- The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all…
- As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in…
- Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
- I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings…
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