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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.… — Georges Perec
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be… — Don Cheadle
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it… — Bella Pollen
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. — Oscar Wilde
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not… — George Steiner
Thank God that tears are colourless.. Otherwise the pillows would have had revealed many secrets. (': — Aldyna Threesya
This is me. I put this in sepia mode. Not just wanted to edit it to be looked more nice. I also… — Aldyna Threesya
I love being oxygen, even it is odourless and colourless but it still useful for us. — Unknown Author

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