Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes detection investigation methods mysteries trifles
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: talent sherlock-holmes genius gifts recognition mediocrity
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes belief accomplishment rewriting-history
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes detection facts characteristics detectives obviousness attributes
I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes watson gentlemen revolver steel-poker toothbrush
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'
'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'
'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'
'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.
Laurie R. KingTags: sherlock-holmes historical-fiction mystery
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