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What a lovely thing a rose is!
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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
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Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.
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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle