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"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."

"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you."

"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
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