“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”

“You see, but you do not observe.”

“Work is the best antidote of sorrow, my dear Watson.”

“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little.”

“But it is better to learn wisdom late than never learn it at all.”

“I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“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.”

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.”

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