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“Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog,”
When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.”
“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,” said he. “It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
“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.
it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
“Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the adventure of the man with the twisted lip.
“On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”
It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”
As to reward, my profession is its own reward;
“The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may depend upon your compliance.”
“Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
I have no doubt that she loved you, but there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Crime is common. Logic is rare.
“I can’t make bricks without clay.”
