The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Quotes

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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a s...

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

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It is only goodness which gives extra...

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These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

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The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoug...

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...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall ...

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I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

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