#holmes

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. ---Sherlock Holmes ↗

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours. ↗