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"All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."
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"There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus."
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"Now me, said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of? "I beg your pardon? "What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, he added, helpfully."
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"To understand the mysteries of God we must move past the logic of men."
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"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
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"I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors."
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"Unknown is interesting like the Dead zone... you never know where you will go."
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"That sounds a lot like, ' I have more secrets that I'm going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest."
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"All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one."
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"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
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"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
Life

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
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"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
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"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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"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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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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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
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"As a rule, said Holmes, 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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