I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.---Sherlock Holmes
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The game is afoot.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
You know my methods. Apply them.
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
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You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
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My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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 with a patriotic V.R. Done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.
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You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
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