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“We can but try.”
“It is simpler to deal direct.”
“It is more than possible; it is probable.”
“Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!”
“Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department.”
“A complex mind. All great criminals have that.”
“You know my methods. Apply them.”
“There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
“What I know is unofficial; what he knows is official.”
“You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”
“There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.”
“It is the unofficial force — the Baker Street irregulars.”
“There is so much red tape in these matters.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
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Sherlock Holmes on Probability
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
Sherlock Holmes on East wind
“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
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