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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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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.

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You know my method, Watson. It is founded on the observances of trifles.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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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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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 of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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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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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.

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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

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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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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.

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I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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