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1 " Allan "
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Tales of Terror and Mystery
2 " His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character. "
3 " It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber, and no more congenial surroundings. "
4 " Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” “But the Solar System!” I protested. "
5 " One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, "
6 " This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger. "
7 " I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential. "
8 " It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. "
9 " But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend. One knew that thus, and only thus, could a solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast. "
10 " It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any. "
11 " ... this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all the fiends crouching closely in his very shadow, like a half-cowed beast which slinks beside its keeper, ready at any unguarded moment to spring at his throat. "
12 " The abominable goth!" he cried. "
13 " screened by a young beech. Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder. Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side. “There’s the print of Wooden-leg‘s "
14 " It was magnificent,” he said, as he took his seat. “Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. "
15 " ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. “You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it. "
16 " Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? "
17 " One other thing, Lestrade,” he added, turning round at the door: ” ‘Rache,’ is the German for ‘revenge’; so don’t lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.” With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open mouthed behind him. "
18 " Monstrous. "
19 " which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft "
20 " What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing? "
