It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has not got
over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra
strain upon it."
He smiled at my vehemence. "Perhaps you are right, Watson," he
said. "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find
it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the
mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Elementary!

Arthur Conan Doyle


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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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No ghosts need apply.

- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Arthur Conan Doyle

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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.

The Man from Archangel

Arthur Conan Doyle

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He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

Arthur Conan Doyle


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My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.

Arthur Conan Doyle


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He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.

Arthur Conan Doyle


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It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Arthur Conan Doyle


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Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.

Arthur Conan Doyle


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