The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Quotes from The Hound of the Baskervilles

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"I have my methods."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"A little monograph upon the thousand-and-one little threads."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"I should recommend you to add strychnine to your evening meal."
Sherlock Holmes
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"One should always look at these things from the point of view of the criminal."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"The faithful are the best servants of the law."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street."
Sherlock Holmes Solitude
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"The baronet was not a difficult man to live with, but he was not an easy one either."
Dr. John Watson
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have data."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"There is nothing so deceptive as an obvious fact."
Sherlock Holmes Truth
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"The case is quite a pretty little problem."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"I have heard that you have had some very strenuous experiences."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"The situation is indeed an extraordinary one."
Sherlock Holmes Adventure
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"A stranger in a strange land feels every shadow to be a threat."
Dr. John Watson Fear
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"The fog and the darkness were upon us."
Dr. John Watson Fear
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"Evil is indeed abroad and powerful in this lonely country."
Dr. John Watson Fear
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"I have abjured all frivolous habits."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The world is full of commonplace occurrences."
Sherlock Holmes Philosophy
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"It is my business to know what other people don't know."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"Come what may, I am glad to have been of service."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"In a modest way I have combated evil, but I have never set myself up as a judge of my fellow-creatures."
Sherlock Holmes Justice
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"The moor has a way of putting things into perspective."
Dr. John Watson Nature
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"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air."
Dr. John Watson Freedom
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"I am a man of the world, and I have mixed with all classes of society."
Dr. John Watson
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"The facts seem to me to admit of only one explanation."
Sherlock Holmes
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"You see, but you do not observe."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use."
Sherlock Holmes Wisdom
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"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."
Sherlock Holmes Knowledge
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"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Determination and courage will overcome any obstacle"
Dr. John Watson Perseverance