“You see, but you do not observe.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“To a great mind, nothing is little.”

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

“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?”

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