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"My name
is Sherlock Holmes. It is my
business to know
what other people do not know."
"I have a trade ofmy own. I suppose I am the only one in
the world. I'm a
consulting detective.
Here in London wehave lots of
governmentdetectives and lots
of private ones.
When these fellows areat fault, they come tome, and I manage to putthem on the right scent. They lay all the evi-dence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowl-edge of the history ofcrime, to set themstraight."
"Under such circumstances I
naturally gravitated to London, that greatcesspool into which all the loungers and idlers
of the Empire areirresistibly drained."
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and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition,the drowsiness of the drug,and the fierce energy ofhis own keen nature."
"Holmes,who loathed
every formof society
with hiswhole
Bohemian soul,
remained inour lodgings
in Baker Street,
buried among his old books,
possessing genius have
a remarkable power of
stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, thatI am very much inyour debt."
"It may be that you
are notyourself
luminous,but you are
a conductor of light. Some
people without
"I am lost without my Boswell."
"Like all other arts, the Science of
Deduction & Analysis is one which can only be
acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the
highest possible perfection in it."
"It is a capital mistake totheorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist
facts to suit theories,instead of theories
to suit facts."
"I have been guiltyof several monographs.
They are all upon technicalsubjects. Here, for example, is one
'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos'. In it I enumerate a hundred and forty
forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco,with coloured plates illustrating the
difference in the ash."
"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg
that you won't speak to me for fifty
minutes."
"'Which is it today,' I asked, 'morphine or cocaine?'
He raised his eyes languidly fromthe old black-leather volume which
he had opened.
'It is cocaine,' he said, 'a seven-per-cent solution.
Would you like to try it?'"
"There isnothing more to
be said or tobe done tonight,
so hand me overmy violin and let
us try to forget for half an hour the
miserable weather
and the still more miserable
ways of ourfellowmen."
"Draw yourchair up, and
hand me my violin, for the only problemwhich we have still to
solve is how to while away
these bleak autumnalevenings."
"He is a first-class chemist."
"Holmes was
working hard over a chemical investigation. A large
curved retort was boiling furiously over the bluish flame of a Bunsen
burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. He
dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing
a solution over to the table."
“To Sherlock
Holmes she is
always the woman.
I have seldom
heard him mention
her under any
other name."
"All emotions,
and that one
particularly, were
abhorrent to his
cold, precise but
admirably balanced
mind. He was, I take
it, the most perfect
reasoning and
observing machine
that the world
has seen."
"'Exactly, Watson.Here is the fruit of my
leisured ease, the magnumopus of my latter years.' He picked up the volume from the table and read outthe whole title,' Practical Handbook
of Bee Culture, with some Observations upon the Segregation ofthe Queen.' Alone I did it. Behold the fruit of
pensive nights and laborious days, when I watched the little working gangs as once I watched the criminal world of London.'"
Tara AllenGraphic Design
Winter 2014