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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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us...

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the...

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the...

I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by...

I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit...

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until...

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until...

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying...

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are...

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are...

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever...

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve...