Do you know, Watson, said he, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by 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 there. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes), p.612, Jazzybee Verlag
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- It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes), p.342, Jazzybee β¦ βΆ
- I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. β¨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). Adventures of Sherl β¦ βΆ
- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as i β¦ βΆ
- Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. β¨ Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories.
- Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul. β¨ The White Company.
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