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  1. 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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  2. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    That was it, sir.
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  3. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Mr Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand you have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of society''No, I am descending.''I beg pardon?''My last client of the sort was a King.''Oh really! I had no idea. And which king?''The King of Scandinavia''What! Had he lost his wife?''You can understand", said Holmes suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
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  4. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
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  5. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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  7. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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  8. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    I have taken to living by my wits.
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  9. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    It is more than possible; it is probable.
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  10. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
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  11. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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  12. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock

    To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.... And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
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