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- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
- 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 most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
- 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…
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