He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the or…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. ✨ The Final Problem (1893)
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