Really, Watson, you excel yourself, said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels, p.1557, GENERAL PRESS
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- I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life. β¨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. β¦ βΆ
- I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes β¦ βΆ
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