The Sherlock Holmes Megapack Quotes

“A man,” he gathered his ideas, “A man should strive to do something larger than himself. To cure disease, or eradicate hunger or poverty or crime.” “Ah!” I said. “Noble thoughts.” I fancied that I could hear the lovely voice of Miss Lucy earnestly saying that, or something similar, to Holmes within the week. When a man is suddenly struck by noble ambitions it is usually a woman who does the striking. But I thought it would be wiser not to mention this deduction,”
― Michael Kurland, The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters

“Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and motion, with which nature has provided young females in its blind desire to propagate the species.”
― Michael Kurland, The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters