A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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A long shot, Watson, a very long shot!
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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My mind 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. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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You know my methods, Watson.
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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
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