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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet |
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet |
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Scandal in Bohemia |
My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while 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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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Scandal in Bohemia |
"There is nothing more to be said or to be done to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow men."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Five Orange Pips |
All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Five Orange Pips |
"Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for despair."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Five Orange Pips |
"I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Man with the Twisted Lip |
One night—it was in June, '89—there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clock.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Man with the Twisted Lip |
"Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Man with the Twisted Lip |
