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  1. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    It is easy to be wise after the event.
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  2. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Hound of the Baskervilles

    That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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  3. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
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  4. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventure of the

    Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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  5. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventure of the Dying

    The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Naval Treaty

    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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  7. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
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  8. Arthur Conan Doyle _ A Study in Scarlet

    His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
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  9. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Hound of the Baskervilles

    ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--""Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity."To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly.""Then had you not better consult him?""I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--""Just a little," said Holmes.
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  10. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Case-Book of Sherlock

    Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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  11. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Casebook of Sherlock

    We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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  12. Arthur Conan Doyle _ Le chien des Baskerville

    Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.
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