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- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
- Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of…
- Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of…
- It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
- I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
- There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
- It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was…
- "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason…
- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,…
- Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had…
- I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
- 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 dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.
- Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles…
- To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those…
- 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…
- Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
- 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…
- From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or…
- 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…
- 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…
- My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
- There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
- ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
- There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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