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Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms

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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I fin...more

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That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.

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I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a h...more

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Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

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You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special fe...more

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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my na...more

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Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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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 at everything with reference to my own s...more

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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the ...more

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Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus...more

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Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer tyre, and we see what that has led to. The other ...more

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Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accid...more

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It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.