Quotes from “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle

Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

that my hand had drawn him back from that dark valley in which all paths meet.

However, wretch as he was, he was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt, Inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

' And with that he ups and he outs, and all I could say wouldn't hold him back.

Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession.

You would oblige me by bringing with you your very excellent field-glass

on either side of the fire,

ness to step out for the police."

"I am afraid I miss the point."

rat-tat-tat.

bore such marks of grief,

might he not have been

in spite of

made up my mind

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