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"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
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"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
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