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„It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.“
„Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.“
„There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.“
„Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.“
„It is easy to be wise after the event.“
„This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.“
„There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.“
„My business is that of every other good citizen – to uphold the law.“
„One must wait till it comes.“
„It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.“
„I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.“
„Quite simple, my dear Watson“
„If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.“
„I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.“
„Accounts are not quite settled between us,” said she, with a passion that equaled my own. “I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.“
„It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.“
„What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.“
„There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.“
„It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?“
„He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.“
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