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• I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Foo...
• How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
  -- Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Sign of Fou...
• The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
  -- Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]...
• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear", 1914...
• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
  You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid....
• 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....
• Anything else you wish to draw to my attention, Mr.
  Holmes ?" "The curious incident of the stable dog in the nighttime....
• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woma
  and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife....
• it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.
  If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect....