“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.”
― Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
― Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
“It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.”
― The Complete Raffles Collection
― The Complete Raffles Collection
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