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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.»
«I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.»
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clearer, continents, extends, refined, refines, refining, sensitive, separate
«And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?»
«It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!»
«His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.»
«It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .»
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simultaneously
«My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man. Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.»
«The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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