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- His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there…
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
- "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…
- 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 should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of…
- If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a…
- A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
- 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,…
- Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
- The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a…
- You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world…
- The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
- There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
- I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
- As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which…
- The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
- The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
- Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
- Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
- His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every…
- You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for…
- There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for…
- I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?…
- I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
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