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" It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
Before
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" It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. "
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" I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. "
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" The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. "
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" Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. "
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" My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. "
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" His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. "
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" For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. "
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" A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. "
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" Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. "
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" A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. "
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" London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. "
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" When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "
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" As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. "
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" I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. "
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" Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. "
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" We can't command our love, but we can our actions. "
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