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• What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Horse, Past, Ears

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2008). “The Napoleonic Trilogy”, p.331, Fireship Press

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• Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Data, Clay, Bricks

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.289

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• It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Struggle, Purpose, Exhausted

  1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Loyalty, Hurt, Heart

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1667, Ageless Reads

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• 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 is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Circles, Paper, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Cells, Years, Would Be

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.37, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Father, Moving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.356, BoD - Books on Demand

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• You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Good Night, Hands

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “The Stark Munro Letters: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Crime, Professors, Mathematical

  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

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• I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Reason

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.29, Zillmann Publishing

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• As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rocks, Water, Gazing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Rivers, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Common, Logic, Crime

  1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

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• The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hounds, Incidents, Grotesque

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.874, Ageless Reads

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• I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Shoes, Lazy, Devil

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, San Francisco, America

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• My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Law, Citizens, Good Citizen

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.1124, Wordsworth Editions

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• Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Cheer, House

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• I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Impatience, Holmes

  1915 The Valley of Fear, ch.1.

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• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Men, Names

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

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• There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Soul, Body, Frantic

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1607, Ageless Reads

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• I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.524, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Imagination, Black

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.121, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Laughter, Laughing, Laugh Often

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

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• His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorry, Humorous, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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