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Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first...

You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.

He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

I have taken to living by my wits.

So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe...

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?{Sherlock Holmes on his .}

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer...

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

To begin at the beginning.

One must wait till it comes.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none...

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

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

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?No, indeed!You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged.My dear fellow! I congrat-To Milverton's housemaid.My dear Holmes!I wanted information, Watson.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising...

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.