Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.
Arthur Conan DoyleThis looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
Arthur Conan DoyleThere are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
Arthur Conan DoyleAre they not fresh and beautiful?" [Watson] cried...
Holmes shook his head gravely.
"... You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed bu 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 here... They always filled me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson... that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beauty of the countryside... But the reason is obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
Arthur Conan DoyleI have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes bored john-watson pistol-practice
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes john-watson
As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés jefferson-hope
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés jefferson-hope
To begin at the beginning.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes
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