“It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.”
― Holmes for the Holidays
― Holmes for the Holidays
“Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair.”
― Adventure of the Creeping Man
― Adventure of the Creeping Man
“If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.”
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“They always told me not to get in the car with strangers.”
“I’m not a stranger. I’m your neighbor.” “My strange neighbor.”
― Locked
“I’m not a stranger. I’m your neighbor.” “My strange neighbor.”
― Locked
“The relations between us in those latter days were peculiar. He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me--many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead--but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance.”
― Adventure of the Creeping Man
― Adventure of the Creeping Man
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