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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

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My job is to know what other people do not know.

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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.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than doe...more

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Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other unti...more

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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, a...more

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false po...more

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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; th...more

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Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in ...more

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The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of ...more

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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

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Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all r...more