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• The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
  -- Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]...
• You see but you do not observe. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holme
• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity...
• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear", 1914...
• How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
  -- Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Sign of Fou...
• I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Foo...
• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
  Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts....
• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
  You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid....
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark
  he real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light....