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Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled

I thrilled now with a keener zest than I had ever enjoyed when we were the defenders of the law instead of its defiers.

But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some

mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that it means?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital

Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business

they were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.

I think I have known how to frame the letter," said Sherlock Holmes.

As to the photograph, your client may rest in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.

Miss Morrison is a little, ethereal slip of a girl

You mean the retired sergeant of Marines," said Sherlock Holmes.

that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote

I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.

When water is near and a weight is missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.

The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.

We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a weekend visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgement, it wants a bit of explainin'.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

The first time, I couldn't have felt more panicked if I'd sneezed and found pieces of my brain in the handkerchief.

Sentimentality, he reflected, was an aid and comfort to the opponents of progress.

Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?

The eight sin, deadlier than all- self transcendence through misplaced devotion-is not included in the list.

The distinction between true and false applies to ideas, not to emotions; an emotion can be cheap, but never untrue.

The curse of 'spherism' upon man's vision of the universe lasted for two thousand years.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.