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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…
- Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
- "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…
- A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
- Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind…
- One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock…
- In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than…
- ...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…
- Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.
- 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…
- Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
- So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what…
- There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
- 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…
- Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look…
- All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!”…
- You know my methods. Apply them.
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