You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.β βA proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.β βYou did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books), p.42, W. W. Norton & Company
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- You see, but you do not observe. β¨ A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
- The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. β¨ E. W. Hornung, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Kendrick Bangs (2016). COLLECTORβS EDITION β¦ βΆ
- Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels, p.206, GENERAL PRESS
- As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson β¦ βΆ
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