sherlock-holmes.xml

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  <quotation id="q1" date="1887">
    <p>
      I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free
as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a
day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally
gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers
and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q2" date="1887">
    <p>
      "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes -- it
approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a
little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence,
you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have
an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he
would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a
passion for definite and exact knowledge."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Stamford, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q3" date="1887">
    <p>
      "How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a
strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have
been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes's first words to Watson, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q4" date="1887">
    <p>
      His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of
contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know
next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the
naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached
a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of
the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That
any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be
aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such
an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, describing Holmes in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q5" date="1887">
    <p>
      "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain
originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with
such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every
sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful
to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other
things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now
the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into
his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him
in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in
the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room
has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there
comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something
that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not
to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q6" date="1887">
    <p>
      "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you
say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not
make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q7" date="1887">
    <p>
      "From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer
the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or
heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of
which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all
other arts, the Science of Deduction and 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.
Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which
present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering
more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn
at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or
profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem,
it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to
look and what to look for. By a man's finger nails, by his
coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of
his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs -- by
each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all
united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is
almost inconceivable."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Book of Life", an article by Holmes quoted in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q8" date="1887">
    <p>
      "They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,"
he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does
apply to detective work."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q9" date="1887">
    <p>
      "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the
colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate
it, and expose every inch of it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q10" date="1887">
    <p>
      "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret
Nature."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q11" date="1887">
    <p>
      "Oh, bless you, it doesn't matter in the least. If the man is
caught, it will be <em>on account</em> of their exertions; if he
escapes, it will be <em>in spite</em> of their exertions. It's heads I
win and tails you lose. Whatever they do, they will have followers.
<foreign>'Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.'</foreign>"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q12" date="1887">
    <p>
      "The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because
it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be
drawn."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q13" date="1887">
    <p>
      "He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the
Missouri," the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the
country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the
water and the trees."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Lucy Ferrier, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q14" date="1887">
    <p>
      "What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,"
returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make
people believe that you have done."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q15" date="1887">
    <p>
      "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be
able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a
very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day
affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other
comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically
for one who can reason analytically."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q16" date="1890">
    <p>
      He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume
which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, -- "a seven-percent
solution. Would you care to try it?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q17" date="1890">
    <p>
      "My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems,
give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most
intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can
dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine
of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q18" date="1890">
    <p>
      "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection. When
Gregson or Lestrade or Athelney Jones are out of their depths --
which, by the way, is their normal state -- the matter is laid before
me."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q19" date="1890">
    <p>
      "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."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q20" date="1890">
    <p>
      I made no remark, however, but sat nursing my wounded leg. I had
a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and, though it did not
prevent me from walking, it ached wearily at every change of the
weather.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q21" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Oh, he rates my assistance too highly," said Sherlock Holmes,
lightly. "He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of
the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the
power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in
knowledge; and that may come in time."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q22" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Oh, didn't you know?" he cried, laughing. "Yes, I have been
guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects.
Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of
the Various Tobaccoes.' In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of
cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, with colored plates illustrating
the difference in the ash. It is a point which is continually turning
up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme importance as
a clue. If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder has
been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously
narrows your field of search. To the trained eye there is as much
difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff
of bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q23" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some
remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses.
Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon
the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters,
sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers.
That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific
detective, -- especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in
discovering the antecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my
hobby."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q24" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be
the truth."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q25" date="1890">
    <p>
      "No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit, -- destructive
to the logical faculty."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q26" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Hence the cocaine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else
is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a
dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down
the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be
more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having
powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime
is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those
which are commonplace have any function upon earth."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q27" date="1890">
    <p>
      He smiled gently. "It is of the first importance," he said, "not
to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is
to me a mere unit, -- a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities
are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most
winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little
children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my
acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a
million upon the London poor."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q28" date="1890">
    <p>
      "I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q29" date="1890">
    <p>
      I endeavored to cheer and amuse her by reminiscences of my
adventures in Afghanistan; but, to tell the truth, I was myself so
excited at our situation and so curious as to our destination that my
stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told
her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the
dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q30" date="1890">
    <p>
      "My health is somewhat fragile," he remarked, as he led the way
down the passage. "I am compelled to be a valetudinarian."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Thaddeus Sholto, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q31" date="1890">
    <p>
      "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the
impossible whatever remains, <em>however improbable</em>, must be the
truth?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q32" date="1890">
    <p>
      "What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own
confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on
which Sholto walked off with the treasure. How's that?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the
door on the inside."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Hum! There's a flaw there."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Athelney Jones and Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q33" date="1890">
    <p>
      "He makes one curious but profound remark. It is that the chief
proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own
smallness. It argues, you see, a power of comparison and of
appreciation which is in itself a proof of nobility. There is much
food for thought in Richter."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q34" date="1890">
    <p>
      "I would not tell them too much," said Holmes. "Women are never
to be entirely trusted, -- not the best of them."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q35" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little
immortal spark concealed about him. You would not think it, to look at
them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is
man!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q36" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He
remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the
aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example,
never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with
precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but
percentages remain constant. So says the statistician."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q37" date="1890">
    <p>
      "Not at all. I think she is one of the most charming young
ladies I ever met, and might have been most useful in such work as we
have been doing. She had a decided genius that way: witness the way in
which she preserved that Agra plan from all the other papers of her
father. But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is
opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I
should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q38" date="1890">
    <p>
      "The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done
all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the
credit, pray what remains for you?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q39" date="1891">
    <p>
      To Sherlock Holmes she is always <em>the</em> woman.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q40" date="1891">
    <p>
      It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene
Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his
cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q41" date="1891">
    <p>
      He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing
machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed
himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions,
save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the
observer -- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and
actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into
his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a
distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental
results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own
high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion
in a nature such as his.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q42" date="1891">
    <p>
      I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us
away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred
interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master
of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention,
while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole
Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among
his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and
ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own
keen nature.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q43" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing
himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. The
distinction is clear."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q44" date="1891">
    <p>
      "For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up
from the hall to this room."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Frequently."
    </p>
    <p>
      "How often?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Well, some hundreds of times."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Then how many are there?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "How many? I don't know."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is
just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I
have both seen and observed."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q45" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I have no data yet. 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."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q46" date="1891">
    <p>
      "And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the
peculiar construction of the sentence -- 'This account of you we have
from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have
written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q47" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes
without opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of
docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was
difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once
furnish information. In this case I found her biography sandwiched in
between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had
written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q48" date="1891">
    <p>
      It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His
expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh
part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science
lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q49" date="1891">
    <p>
      "When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is
at once to rush to the thing which she values most. It is a perfectly
overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it.
In the case of the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to
me, and also in the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs
at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q50" date="1891">
    <p>
      "What a woman -- oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia,
when we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick
and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? Is
it not a pity that she was not on my level?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a
very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q51" date="1891">
    <p>
      And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the
kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were
beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of
women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of
Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under
the honorable title of the woman.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Scandal in Bohemia"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q52" date="1891">
    <p>
      "You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique
things are very often connected not with the larger but with the
smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for
doubt whether any positive crime has been committed."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q53" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I have nothing to do today. My practice is never very
absorbing."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q54" date="1891">
    <p>
      "As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the
course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other
similar cases which occur to my memory. In the present instance I am
forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q55" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake
in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor
little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so
candid."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q56" date="1891">
    <p>
      "'You will, however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious
precaution.' With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged
until I yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he
as he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we
have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once
by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust
you with human nature.'"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Jabez Wilson, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q57" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about
Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped
with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very long. It
cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf
with my writings."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Jabez Wilson, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q58" date="1891">
    <p>
      "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do
not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary league.
On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some 30 pounds,
to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have gained on every
subject which comes under the letter A."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q59" date="1891">
    <p>
      "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less
mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes
which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most
difficult to identify."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q60" date="1891">
    <p>
      "What are you going to do, then?" I asked.
    </p>
    <p>
      "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and
I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q61" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the
programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It
is introspective, and I want to introspect."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q62" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good deal in this mystery
of the Red Headed League. I am sure that you inquired your way merely
in order that you might see him."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Not him."
    </p>
    <p>
      "What then?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "The knees of his trousers."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q63" date="1891">
    <p>
      My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a
very capable perfomer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All the
afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness,
gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his
gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those
of Holmes, the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted,
ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q64" date="1891">
    <p>
      In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted
itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I
have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative
mood which occasionally predominated in him. The swing of his nature
took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew
well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he
had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his
black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase would
suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would
rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with
his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was
not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped
in the music at St. James's Hall I felt that an evil time might be
coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q65" date="1891">
    <p>
      I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but I was
always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with
Sherlock Holmes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q66" date="1891">
    <p>
      "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said
the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which are,
if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and
fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It is not too
much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto
murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the
official force."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Peter Jones, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q67" date="1891">
    <p>
      "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned
admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q68" date="1891">
    <p>
      "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already
feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to
escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help
me to do so."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Red Headed League"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q69" date="1891">
    <p>
      "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side
of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely
stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would
not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of
existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over
this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer
things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings,
the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through
generation, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all
fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale
and unprofitable."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q70" date="1891">
    <p>
      "We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme
limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither
fascinating nor artistic."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q71" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the
commonplace."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q72" date="1891">
    <p>
      "The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, 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."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q73" date="1891">
    <p>
      "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an
axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most
important."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q74" date="1891">
    <p>
      "The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of
interest."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q75" date="1891">
    <p>
      "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You
have really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed
everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and you
have a quick eye for color. Never trust to general impressions, my
boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q76" date="1891">
    <p>
      A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent
cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day
in the chemical work which was so dear to him.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q77" date="1891">
    <p>
      "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old
Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and
danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as
much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q78" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered
Holmes thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing,
but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it
pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely
different."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q79" date="1891">
    <p>
      "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he
answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some other
obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Mr. Lestrade.
You know me too well to think that I am boasting when I say that I
shall either confirm or destroy his theory by means which he is quite
incapable of employing, or even of understanding."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q80" date="1891">
    <p>
      "You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of
trifles."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q81" date="1891">
    <p>
      "And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall
I say of this case until we are on the scene of action."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q82" date="1891">
    <p>
      "And the murderer?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears
thick-soled shooting-boots and a gray cloak, smokes Indian cigars,
uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his pocket.
There are several other indications, but these may be enough to aid us
in our search."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Lestrade and Holmes, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q83" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and
written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of
pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q84" date="1891">
    <p>
      "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate
play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a
case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There,
but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q85" date="1891">
    <p>
      All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against
the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London
we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of
life and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces
which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization, like
untamed beasts in a cage.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Five Orange Pips"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q86" date="1891">
    <p>
      "I have come for advice."
    </p>
    <p>
      "That is easily got."
    </p>
    <p>
      "And help."
    </p>
    <p>
      "That is not always so easy."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>John Openshaw and Holmes, in "The Five Orange Pips"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q87" date="1891">
    <p>
      Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the
arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal
reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a single
fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of
events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow
from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the
contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly
understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to
accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. We have
not yet grasped the results which the reason alone can attain to.
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who
have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art,
however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner
should be able to utilize all the facts which have come to his
knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a
possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free
education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is
not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge
which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have
endeavored in my case to do."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Five Orange Pips"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q88" date="1891">
    <p>
      "Well," he said, "I say now, as I said then, that a man should
keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is
likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his
library, where he can get it if he wants it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Five Orange Pips"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q89" date="1892">
    <p>
      "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of
those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four
million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few
square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of
humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take
place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be
striking and bizarre without being criminal. We have already had
experience of such."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q90" date="1892">
    <p>
      "The question for us now to solve is the sequence of events
leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the crop of a goose in
Tottenham Court Road at the other."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q91" date="1892">
    <p>
      When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and
held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see
how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of
crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the
larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q92" date="1892">
    <p>
      "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what
other people don't know."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>James Ryder and Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q93" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical
problem, and its solution is its own reward."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q94" date="1892">
    <p>
      On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I
have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend
Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely
strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the
love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to
associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards
the unusual, and even the fantastic.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q95" date="1892">
    <p>
      "It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to
crime it is the worst of all."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q96" date="1892">
    <p>
      "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He
has nerve and he has knowledge. Palmer and Pritchard were among the
heads of their profession."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q97" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Then it flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would
depend very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my
face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to think of
that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and yet, had I the
nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black shadow wavering down
upon me?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Victor Hatherley, in "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q98" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to
return once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I
have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I
gained?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of
value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the
reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your
existence."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q99" date="1892">
    <p>
      I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a
sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the Jezail bullet
which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan
campaign throbbed with dull persistence.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q100" date="1892">
    <p>
      "This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which
call upon a man either to be bored or to lie."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q101" date="1892">
    <p>
      "They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me
that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off."
    </p>
    <p>
      "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be
found in the neighborhood of his wardrobe."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Lestrade and Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q102" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done
my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Hatty Doran, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q103" date="1892">
    <p>
      "It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am
one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the
blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our
children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country
under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the
Stars and Stripes."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q104" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem
we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal
evenings."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q105" date="1892">
    <p>
      "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is
wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that
whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than sufficient
punishment."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q106" date="1892">
    <p>
      "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock
Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph,
"it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations
that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q107" date="1892">
    <p>
      "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing
cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe
which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious
rather than a meditative mood -- "you have erred perhaps in attempting
to put color and life into each of your statements instead of
confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe
reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable
feature about the thing."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q108" date="1892">
    <p>
      "If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an
impersonal thing -- a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is
rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that
you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of
lectures into a series of tales."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q109" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great
unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a
compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis
and deduction!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q110" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and
originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating
into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to
young ladies from boarding-schools."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q111" date="1892">
    <p>
      "If you should find yourself in doubt or in danger--"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Danger! What danger do you foresee?"
    </p>
    <p>
      Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if
we could define it," said he.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Violet Hunter, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q112" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of
a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with
reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered
houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the
only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of
the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q113" date="1892">
    <p>
      "The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law
cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a
tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget
sympathy and indignation among the neighbors, and then the whole
machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set
it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But
look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the
most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of
the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on,
year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this lady
who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I should never
have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of country which makes
the danger."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q114" date="1892">
    <p>
      "What <em>can</em> be the matter, then? Can you suggest no
explanation?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would
cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is correct
can only be determined by the fresh information which we shall no
doubt find waiting for us."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q115" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colorless in mind as well as
in feature. She impressed me neither favorably nor the reverse. She
was a nonentity."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Violet Hunter, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q116" date="1892">
    <p>
      "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining
light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents.
Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently
gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying
their children. This child's disposition is abnormally cruel, merely
for cruelty's sake, and whether he derives this from his smiling
father, as I should suspect, or from his mother, it bodes evil for the
poor girl who is in their power."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q117" date="1892">
    <p>
      As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my
disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she
had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the
head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met
with considerable success.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q118" date="1892">
    <p>
      "We are going well," said he, looking out the window and
glancing at his watch. "Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half
miles an hour."
    </p>
    <p>
      "I have not observed the quarter-mile posts," said I.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty
yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q119" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another
person."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q120" date="1892">
    <p>
      "It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should
be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of
fresh evidence."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q121" date="1892">
    <p>
      "The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such
personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a
plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to
detach the framework of fact -- of absolute undeniable fact -- from
the embellishments of theorists and reporters."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q122" date="1892">
    <p>
      "See the value of imagination," said Holmes. "It is the one
quality which Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened,
acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us
proceed."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q123" date="1892">
    <p>
      "At least you have his assurance that your horse will run," said
I.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Yes, I have his assurance," said the Colonel, with a shrug of
his shoulders. "I should prefer to have the horse."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Colonel Ross, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q124" date="1892">
    <p>
      "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my
attention?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
    </p>
    <p>
      "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
    </p>
    <p>
      "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Inspector Gregory and Holmes, in "Silver Blaze"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q125" date="1893">
    <p>
      And this not so much for the sake of his reputations -- for,
indeed, it was when he was at his wits' end that his energy and his
versatility were most admirable -- but because where he failed it
happened too often that no one else succeeded, and that the tale was
left forever without a conclusion.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q126" date="1893">
    <p>
      Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for
exercise's sake. Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and
he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have
ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of
energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some
professional object to be served.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q127" date="1893">
    <p>
      "My dear Mr. Grant Munro--" began Holmes.
    </p>
    <p>
      Our visitor sprang from his char. "What!" he cried, "you know my
mane?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "If you wish to preserve your incognito,' said Holmes, smiling,
"I would suggest that you cease to write your name upon the lining of
your hat, or else that you turn the crown towards the person whom you
are addressing."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Grant Munro, in "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q128" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Upon my word, Watson, there is something very attractive about
that livid face at the window, and I would not have missed the case
for worlds."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q129" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q130" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am
getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to
a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I
shall be infinitely obliged to you."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Yellow Face"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q131" date="1893">
    <p>
      The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who
would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the
curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his
drugs.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Stock-Brocker's Clerk"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q132" date="1893">
    <p>
      "I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain,"
said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Stock-Brocker's Clerk"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q133" date="1893">
    <p>
      "I sent in my testimonial and application, but without the least
hope of getting it. Back came an answer by return, saying that if I
would appear next Monday I might take over my new duties at once,
provided that my appearance was satisfactory. No one knows how these
things are worked. Some people say that the manager just plunges his
hand into the heap and takes the first that comes."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Hall Pycroft, in "The Stock-Brocker's Clerk"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q134" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a
villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns
to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Stock-Brocker's Clerk"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q135" date="1893">
    <p>
      "I don't know how you manage this, Mr. Holmes, but it seems to
me that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in
your hands."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Trevor senior, in "The 'Gloria Scott'"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q136" date="1893">
    <p>
      An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend
Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was
the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he
affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in
his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a
fellow-lodger to distraction.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q137" date="1893">
    <p>
      The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a
natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than
befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a
man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe
end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed
by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I
begin to give myself virtuous airs.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q138" date="1893">
    <p>
      I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be
distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer
humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred
Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a
patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the
atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q139" date="1893">
    <p>
      Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal
relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of
turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q140" date="1893">
    <p>
      "It is rather an absurd business, this ritual of ours," he
answered. "But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse
it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Reginald Musgrave, in "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q141" date="1893">
    <p>
      "You know my methods in such cases, Watson. I put myself in the
man's place and, having first gauged his intelligence, I try to
imagine how I should myself have proceeded under the same
circumstances. In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton's
intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to
make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have
dubbed it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Musgrave Ritual"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q142" date="1893">
    <p>
      "It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be
able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and
which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated
instead of being concentrated."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Reigate Squires"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q143" date="1893">
    <p>
      " Excellent!" I cried.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Elementary," said he.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q144" date="1893">
    <p>
      A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday,
and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the
slightest attraction to him. He loved to lie in the very centre of
five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running
through them, responsive to every little rumor or suspicion of
unsolved crime. Appreciation of Nature found no place among his many
gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the
evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Resident Patient"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q145" date="1893">
    <p>
      "But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may
have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the
French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest
forms."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q146" date="1893">
    <p>
      "My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank
modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen
exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a
departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q147" date="1893">
    <p>
      "I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If
the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an
arm-chair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever
lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out
of his way to verify his own solution, and would rather be considered
wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q148" date="1893">
    <p>
      "There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness,
some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.
Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest
periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club
was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable
men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any
other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any
circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice
of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother
was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing
atmosphere."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q149" date="1893">
    <p>
      Mr. Melas, however, still lived, and in less than an hour, with
the aid of ammonia and brandy I had the satisfaction of seeing him
open his eyes, and of knowing that my hand had drawn him back from
that dark valley in which all paths meet.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q150" date="1893">
    <p>
      "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in
religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It
can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest
assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the
flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all
really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this
rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of
life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras,
and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q151" date="1893">
    <p>
      "You suspect some one?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "I suspect myself."
    </p>
    <p>
      "What!"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Of coming to conclusions too rapidly."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Annie Harrison and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q152" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above
the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea."
    </p>
    <p>
      "The board-schools."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with
hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the
wise, better England of the future."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q153" date="1893">
    <p>
      Standing on the run between us, with his slight, tall figure,
his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely
tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a
nobleman who is in truth noble.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>The description of Lord Holdhurst, in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q154" date="1893">
    <p>
      It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these
the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by
which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Opening line of "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q155" date="1893">
    <p>
      "You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?" said he.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Never."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Aye, there's the genius and the wonder of the thing!" he cried.
"The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what
puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q156" date="1893">
    <p>
      "As you are aware, Watson, there is no one who knows the higher
criminal world of London so well as I do. For years past I have
continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some
deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and
throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the
most varying sorts -- forgery cases, robberies, murders -- I have felt
the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of
those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally
consulted. For years I have endeavored to break through the veil which
shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and
followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to
ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q157" date="1893">
    <p>
      "He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of
half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great
city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a
brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the
center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he
knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He
only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is
there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a
house to be rifled, a man to be removed -- the word is passed to the
Professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be
caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his defence. But
the central power which uses the agent is never caught -- never so
much as suspected."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q158" date="1893">
    <p>
      "'You crossed my path on the 4th of January,' said he. 'On the
23d you incommoded me; by the middle of February I was seriously
inconvenienced by you; at the end of March I was absolutely hampered
in my plans; and now, at the close of April, I find myself placed in
such a position through your continual persecution that I am in
positive danger of losing my liberty. The situation is becoming an
impossible one.'"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Professor Moriarty, speaking to Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q159" date="1893">
    <p>
      "'Danger is part of my trade,' I remarked."
    </p>
    <p>
      "'That is not danger,' said he. 'It is inevitable destruction.
You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty
organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness,
have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be
trodden under foot.'"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q160" date="1893">
    <p>
      "Now I have come round to you, and on my way I was attacked by a
rough with a bludgeon. I knocked him down, and the police have him in
custody; but I can tell you with the most absolute confidence that no
possible connection will ever be traced between the gentleman upon
whose front teeth I have barked my knuckles and the retiring
mathematical coach, who is, I dare say, working out problems upon a
black-board ten miles away."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q161" date="1893">
    <p>
      "I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not
lived wholly in vain," he remarked. "If my record were closed to-night
I could still survey it with equanimity. The air of London is the
sweeter for my presence. In over a thousand cases I am not aware that
I have ever used my powers upon the wrong side. Of late I have been
tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than
those more superficial ones for which our artificial state of society
is responsible."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Final Problem"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q162" date="1902">
    <p>
      "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been
so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually
underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself
luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without
possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, to Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q163" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a
step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not
whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of
science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? Come in!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q164" date="1902">
    <p>
      "You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so
dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your
parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is
available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is
not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your
skull."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Dr Mortimer, to Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q165" date="1902">
    <p>
      "To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I
counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in
those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Hugo Baskerville's document, read by Dr Mortimer in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q166" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Dr Mortimer, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q167" date="1902">
    <p>
      "I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world," said
he. "In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father
of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q168" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Caught cold, Watson?" said he.
    </p>
    <p>
      "No, it's this poisonous atmosphere."
    </p>
    <p>
      "I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Thick! It is intolerable."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Open the window, then!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q169" date="1902">
    <p>
      "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance
ever observes."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q170" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Where do you think that I have been?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "A fixture also."
    </p>
    <p>
      "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire."
    </p>
    <p>
      "In spirit?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair and has, I
regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and
an incredible amount of tobacco."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q171" date="1902">
    <p>
      "After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map
of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all
day. I flatter myself that I could find my way about."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q172" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Yes, the setting is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to
have a hand in the affairs of men--"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural
explanation."
    </p>
    <p>
      "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q173" date="1902">
    <p>
      "It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated
atmosphere helps a concentration of thought. I have not pushed it to
the length of getting into a box to think, but that is the logical
outcome of my convictions."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q174" date="1902">
    <p>
      "There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded
bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening
half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your
Esquimau. The detection of types is one of the most elementary
branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess
that once when I was very young I confused the <cite>Leeds
Mercury</cite> with the <cite>Western Morning News</cite>. But a
<cite>Times</cite> leader is entirely distinctive, and these words
could have been taken from nothing else."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q316" date="1902">
    <p>
      "Snap goes our third thread, and we end where we began."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q175" date="1902">
    <p>
      For half an hour I waited with every nerve on the alert, but
there came no other sound save the chiming clock and the rustle of the
ivy on the wall.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q176" date="1902">
    <p>
      Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green
patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point
the track.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q177" date="1902">
    <p>
      As far as I could judge, the figure was that of a tall, thin
man. He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his
head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of
peat and granite which lay before him. He might have been the very
spirit of that terrible place.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q178" date="1902">
    <p>
      I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when
Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him
casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing
but craniology for the rest of our drive. I have not lived for years
with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q179" date="1902">
    <p>
      "It is murder, Watson -- refined, cold-blooded, deliberate
murder."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q180" date="1902">
    <p>
      To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and
half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her
own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the
man who has not one woman to mourn him.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, on the death of Selden in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q181" date="1902">
    <p>
      "We have him, Watson, we have him, and I dare swear that before
tomorrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of
his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the
Baker Street collection!" He burst into one of his rare fits of
laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him
laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q182" date="1902">
    <p>
      A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a
hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,
its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and
dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream
of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more
hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke
upon us out of the wall of fog.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q183" date="1902">
    <p>
      If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we
could kill him.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q184" date="1902">
    <p>
      The more <foreign>outré</foreign> and grotesque an incident is
the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point
which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and
scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q185" date="1902">
    <p>
      There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over
her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly
both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q186" date="1902">
    <p>
      "The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry,
but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q187" date="1903">
    <p>
      As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had
been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was
carrying. I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of
one of them, <cite>The Origin of Tree Worship</cite>, and it struck me
that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade
or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q188" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I
seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q189" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused
myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama.
You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named
Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were
receiving news of your friend. I then passed through Persia, looked in
at Mecca, and paid a short but interesting visit to the Khalifa at
Khartoum the results of which I have communicated to the Foreign
Office. Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into
the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at
Montpellier, in the south of France."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes explains his three-year absence, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q190" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite
variety," said he, and I recognized in his voice the joy and pride
which the artist takes in his own creation.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q191" date="1903">
    <p>
      "That you, Lestrade?" said Holmes.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Yes, Mr. Holmes. I took the job myself. It's good to see you
back in London, sir."
    </p>
    <p>
      "I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected
murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey
Mystery with less than your usual -- that's to say, you handled it
fairly well."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Lestrade, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q192" date="1903">
    <p>
      "My collection of M's is a fine one," said he. "Moriarty himself
is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the
poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked
out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally,
here is our friend of to-night."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q193" date="1903">
    <p>
      "There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height,
and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it
often in humans. I have a theory that the individual represents in his
development the whole procession of his ancestors, and that such a
sudden turn to good or evil stands for some strong influence which
came into the line of his pedigree. The person becomes, as it were,
the epitome of the history of his own family."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q194" date="1903">
    <p>
      "Meanwhile, come what may, Colonel Moran will trouble us no
more. The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland
Yard Museum, and once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his
life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex
life of London so plentifully presents."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Empty House"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q195" date="1903">
    <p>
      "With that man in the field, one's morning paper presented
infinite possibilities. Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson,
the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the
great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges
of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
Petty thefts, wanton assaults, purposeless outrage -- to the man who
held the clue all could be worked into one connected whole. To the
scientific student of the higher criminal world, no capital in Europe
offered the advantages which London then possessed. But now --" He
shrugged his shoulders in humorous deprecation of the state of things
which he had himself done so much to produce.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, on Professor Moriarty, in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q196" date="1903">
    <p>
      "You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I
assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a
solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever
about you."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q197" date="1903">
    <p>
      "Arrest you!" said Holmes. "This is really most grati-- most
interesting."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q198" date="1903">
    <p>
      "But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge
of when to stop."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, on Jonas Oldacre, in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q199" date="1903">
    <p>
      "These hieroglyphics have evidently a meaning. If it is a purely
arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it. If, on the
other hand, it is systematic, I have no doubt that we shall get to the
bottom of it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q200" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the
moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q201" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I am fairly familiar with all forms of secret writings, and am
myself the author of a trifling monograph upon the subject, in which I
analyze one hundred and sixty separate ciphers, but I confess that
this is entirely new to me."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q202" date="1903">
    <p>
      "As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English
alphabet, and it predominates to so marked an extent that even in a
short sentence one would expect to find it most often. Out of fifteen
symbols in the first message, four were the same, so it was reasonable
to set this down as E."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q203" date="1903">
    <p>
      "What one man can invent another can discover."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q204" date="1903">
    <p>
      "I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were
typewriting. Of course, it is obvious that it is music. You observe
the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both
professions? There is a spirituality about the face, however" -- she
gently turned it towards the light -- "which the typewriter does not
generate. This lady is a musician."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q205" date="1903">
    <p>
      "Well," said I, "you call that love, Mr. Carruthers, but I
should call it selfishness."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Maybe the two things go together."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Bob Carruthers, in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q206" date="1903">
    <p>
      In the whirl of our incessant activity, it has often been
difficult for me, as the reader has probably observed, to round off my
narratives, and to give those final details which the curious might
expect. Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once
over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q207" date="1904">
    <p>
      His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his
academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he
entered himself -- so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was
the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity. And yet his first
action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against
the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that
majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearth-rug.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>The entrance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., in "The Adventure of the Priory School"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q208" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Now," said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared,
"having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the
past."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Priory School"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q209" date="1904">
    <p>
      So unworldly was he -- or so capricious -- that he frequently
refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no
appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense
application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented
those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination
and challenged his ingenuity.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson's description of Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q210" date="1904">
    <p>
      "There, Watson, this infernal case had haunted me for ten days.
I hereby banish it completely from my presence."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q211" date="1904">
    <p>
      "There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of
exercise before breakfast."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q212" date="1904">
    <p>
      "If you could have looked into Allardyce's back shop, you would
have seen a dead pig swung from a hook in the ceiling, and a gentleman
in his shirt sleeves furiously stabbing at it with this weapon. I was
that energetic person, and I have satisfied myself that by no exertion
of my strength can I transfix the pig with a single blow. Perhaps you
would care to try?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q213" date="1904">
    <p>
      "They appear to be lists of Stock Exchange securities. I thought
that `J.H.N.' were the initials of a broker, and that `C.P.R.' may
have been his client."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Try Canadian Pacific Railway," said Holmes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Hopkins and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q214" date="1904">
    <p>
      It was a long and melancholy vigil, and yet brought with it
something of the thrill which the hunter feels when he lies beside the
water-pool, and waits for the coming of the thirsty beast of prey.
What savage creature was it which might steal upon us out of the
darkness? Was it a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken
fighting hard with flashing fang and claw, or would it prove to be
some skulking jackal, dangerous only to the weak and unguarded?
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of Black Peter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q215" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you
stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding,
venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened
faces? Well, that's how Milverton impresses me."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q216" date="1904">
    <p>
      "I am aware that what you say is true about the lady's
resources," said he. "At the same time you must admit that the
occasion of a lady's marriage is a very suitable time for her friends
and relatives to make some little effort upon her behalf. They may
hesitate as to an acceptable wedding present. Let me assure them that
this little bundle of letters would give more joy than all the
candelabra and butter-dishes in London."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Charles Augustus Milverton, in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q217" date="1904">
    <p>
      "You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have
always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.
This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction. See here!" He
took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he
exhibited a number of shining instruments. "This is a first-class,
up-to-date burgling kit, with nickel-plated jemmy, diamond-tipped
glass-cutter, adaptable keys, and every modern improvement which the
march of civilization demands."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q218" date="1904">
    <p>
      "You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the
Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the
parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q219" date="1904">
    <p>
      No. 131 was one of a row, all flat-chested, respectable, and
most unromantic dwellings. As we drove up, we found the railings in
front of the house lined by a curious crowd. Holmes whistled.
    </p>
    <p>
      "By George! It's attempted murder at the least. Nothing less
will hold the London message-boy. There's a deed of violence indicated
in that fellow's round shoulders and outstretched neck."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q220" date="1904">
    <p>
      In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable
London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial
London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside
city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter
and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q221" date="1904">
    <p>
      "The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only
know how to use it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q222" date="1904">
    <p>
      Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a
spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought
crisis of a play. A flush of colour sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks,
and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage
of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased
to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration
and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which
turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being
moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q223" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases,
Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one
than that. We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are
very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man,
from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be
glad to shake you by the hand."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q224" date="1904">
    <p>
      "By Jove! my dear fellow, it is nearly nine, and the landlady
babbled of green peas at seven-thirty."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Three Students"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q225" date="1904">
    <p>
      As I turn over the pages, I see my notes upon the repulsive
story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker.
Here also I find an account of the Addleton tragedy, and the singular
contents of the ancient British barrow. The famous Smith-Mortimer
succession case comes also within this period, and so does the
tracking and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard assassin -- an exploit
which won for Holmes an autograph letter of thanks from the French
President and the Order of the Legion of Honour.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q226" date="1904">
    <p>
      Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat
fiercely against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths
of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork on every side of us, to
feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge
elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot
the fields.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q227" date="1904">
    <p>
      "It is indeed, Mr. Holmes. I've had a bustling afternoon, I
promise you. Did you see anything of the Yoxley case in the latest
editions?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "I've seen nothing later than the fifteenth century to-day."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Stanley Hopkins and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q228" date="1904">
    <p>
      Holmes rose. Taking the forms, he carried them over to the
window and carefully examined that which was uppermost.
    </p>
    <p>
      "It is a pity he did not write in pencil," said he, throwing
them down again with a shrug of disappointment. "As you have no doubt
frequently observed, Watson, the impression usually goes through -- a
fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q229" date="1904">
    <p>
      "He is big enough and old enough to look after himself, and if
he is so foolish as to lose himself, I entirely refuse to accept the
responsibility of hunting for him."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Lord Mount-James, on his nephew, in "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q230" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Come, Watson," said he, and we passed from that house of grief
into the pale sunlight of the winter day.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes's words in the last paragraph of "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q231" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Come, Watson, come!" he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word!
Into your clothes and come!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q232" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers
like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation
when a simpler one is at hand."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q233" date="1904">
    <p>
      "We have not yet met our Waterloo, Watson, but this is our
Marengo, for it begins in defeat and ends in victory."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q234" date="1904">
    <p>
      "Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real
harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his
crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with
the law of England than with my own conscience."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q235" date="1904">
    <p>
      "And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember
the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder
on her nose -- that proved to be the correct solution. How can you
build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes,
or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a
curling tongs."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Second Stain"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q236" date="1915">
    <p>
      "I am inclined to think--" said I.
    </p>
    <p>
      "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Opening lines of "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q237" date="1915">
    <p>
      "You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as--"
    </p>
    <p>
      "My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice.
    </p>
    <p>
      "I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public."
    </p>
    <p>
      "A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a
certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must
learn to guard myself.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q238" date="1915">
    <p>
      "But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in
the eyes of the law -- and there lie the glory and the wonder of it!
The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the
controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or
marred the destiny of nations -- that's the man! But so aloof is he
from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his
management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you
have uttered he could hale you to a court and emerge with your year's
pension as a solatium for his wounded character."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q239" date="1915">
    <p>
      "Is he not the celebrated author of the Dynamics of an Asteroid,
a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that
it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of
criticizing it?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, on Professor Moriarty, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q240" date="1915">
    <p>
      "But what can he do?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Hum! That's a large question. When you have one of the first
brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his
back, there are infinite possibilities."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q241" date="1915">
    <p>
      "The next sign is C2. What do you make of that, Watson?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Chapter the second, no doubt."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Hardly that, Watson. You will, I am sure, agree with me that if
the page be given, the number of the chapter is immaterial. Also that
if page 534 finds us only in the second chapter, the length of the
first one must have been really intolerable."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q242" date="1915">
    <p>
      "Let us consider the claims of Whitaker's Almanac. It is in
common use. It has the requisite number of pages. It is in double
column. Though reserved in its earlier vocabulary, it becomes, if I
remember right, quite garrulous towards the end."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q243" date="1915">
    <p>
      "There, Watson! What do you think of pure reason and its fruit?
If the green-grocer had such a thing as a laurel wreath, I should send
Billy round for it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q244" date="1915">
    <p>
      Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent
instantly recognizes genius ...
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q245" date="1915">
    <p>
      "Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your
life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve
hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles --
even Professor Moriarty. ... The old wheel turns, and the same spoke
comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q246" date="1915">
    <p>
      "Well, Holmes," I murmured, "have you found anything out?"
    </p>
    <p>
      He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the
tall, lean figure inclined towards me. "I say, Watson," he whispered,
"would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man
with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Not in the least," I answered in astonishment.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Ah, that's lucky," he said, and not another word would he utter
that night.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q247" date="1915">
    <p>
      "Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of
our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of
knowledge are often of extraordinary interest."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q248" date="1915">
    <p>
      "The blunt accusation, the brutal tap upon the shoulder -- what
can one make of such a denouement? But the quick inference, the subtle
trap, the clever forecast of coming events, the triumphant vindication
of bold theories -- are these not the pride and the justification of
our life's work?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q249" date="1915">
    <p>
      "A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the
extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer --
an absurd extravagance of energy -- but the nut is very effectually
crushed all the same."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q250" date="1915">
    <p>
      Barker beat his head with his clenched fist in his impotent
anger. "Do not tell me that we have to sit down under this? Do you say
that no one can ever get level with this king devil?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be
looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But
you must give me time -- you must give me time!"
    </p>
    <p>
      We all sat in silence for some minutes while those fateful eyes
still strained to pierce the veil.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>The final paragraphs of "The Valley of Fear"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q251" date="1917">
    <p>
      The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he
is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional
attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm
upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided
between philosophy and agriculture. During this period of rest he has
refused the most princely offers to take up various cases, having
determined that his retirement was a permanent one.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From the preface to the collection <cite>His Last Bow</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q252" date="1908">
    <p>
      "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces
because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.
Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem
to have passed forever from the criminal world."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q253" date="1908">
    <p>
      "I'm bound to say that I make nothing of the note except that
there was something on hand, and that a woman, as usual, was at the
bottom of it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Inspector Baynes, in "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q254" date="1908">
    <p>
      "Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find
yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q255" date="1908">
    <p>
      "Well, well! What next?" said he. "Brother Mycroft is coming
round."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Why not?" I asked.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Why not? It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country
lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall
lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall -- that is his cycle. Once, and
only once, he has been here. What upheaval can possibly have derailed
him?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Watson, in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q256" date="1908">
    <p>
      All other men are specialists, but his specialism is
omniscience.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, on his brother Mycroft, in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q257" date="1908">
    <p>
      "We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other
contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the
truth."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q258" date="1910">
    <p>
      A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me
that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my
appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was
monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe. Vague shapes
swirled and swam amid the dark cloud-bank, each a menace and a warning
of something coming, the advent of some unspeakable dweller upon the
threshold, whose very shadow would blast my soul.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q259" date="1910">
    <p>
      "I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I
loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter
has done. Who knows?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q260" date="1911">
    <p>
      He took down the great book in which, day by day, he filed the
agony columns of the various London journals. "Dear me!" said he,
turning over the pages, "what a chorus of groans, cries, and
bleatings! What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most
valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the
unusual!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Red Circle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q261" date="1911">
    <p>
      "Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with
the greatest for the last."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Red Circle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q262" date="1911">
    <p>
      "There is one correspondent who is a sure draw, Watson. That is
the bank. Single ladies must live, and their passbooks are compressed
diaries."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q263" date="1911">
    <p>
      "Besides, on general principles it is best that I should not
leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it
causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q264" date="1911">
    <p>
      To Holmes I wrote showing how rapidly and surely I had got down
to the roots of the matter. In reply I had a telegram asking for a
description of Dr. Shlessinger's left ear.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q265" date="1911">
    <p>
      "And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my
dear Watson," said he. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible
blunder which you have omitted."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q266" date="1911">
    <p>
      "Now we will take another line of reasoning. When you follow two
separate chains of thought, Watson, you will find some point of
intersection which should approximate to the truth."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q267" date="1913">
    <p>
      Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a
long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all
hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her
remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life
which must have sorely tried her patience. His incredible untidiness,
his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver
practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific
experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung
around him made him the very worst tenant in London. On the other
hand, his payments were princely. I have no doubt that the house might
have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms
during the years that I was with him.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q268" date="1913">
    <p>
      She was fond of him, too, for he had a remarkable gentleness and
courtesy in his dealings with women. He disliked and distrusted the
sex, but he was always a chivalrous opponent.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, describing Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q269" date="1913">
    <p>
      "I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it
pours electricity into a non-conductor?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q270" date="1913">
    <p>
      "Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not
one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am
wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I
saying, Watson?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q271" date="1913">
    <p>
      "You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world,
then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q272" date="1913">
    <p>
      "My correspondence, however, is, as you know, a varied one, and
I am somewhat upon my guard against any packages which reach me."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q273" date="1917">
    <p>
      It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August -- the
most terrible August in the history of the world.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>First sentence of "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q274" date="1917">
    <p>
      The secretary chuckled. "She might almost personify Britannia,"
said he, "with her complete self-absorption and general air of
comfortable somnolence."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Baron Von Herling, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q275" date="1917">
    <p>
      "I may say that a good many of these papers have come through
me, and I need not add are thoroughly untrustworthy. It would brighten
my declining years to see a German cruiser navigating the Solent
according to the mine-field plans which I have furnished."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q276" date="1917">
    <p>
      "But you, Holmes -- you have changed very little -- save for
that horrible goatee."
    </p>
    <p>
      "These are the sacrifices one makes for one's country, Watson,"
said Holmes, pulling at his little tuft. "To-morrow it will be but a
dreadful memory."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q277" date="1917">
    <p>
      "With my hair cut and a few other superficial changes I shall no
doubt reappear at Claridge's to-morrow as I was before this American
stunt -- I beg your pardon, Watson, my well of English seems to be
permanently defiled -- before this American job came my way."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q278" date="1917">
    <p>
      "Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my
latter years!" He picked up the volume from the table and read out the
whole title, <cite>Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some
Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen</cite>. "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."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q279" date="1917">
    <p>
      "Well, you realize your position, you and your accomplice here.
If I were to shout for help as we pass through the village--"
    </p>
    <p>
      "My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably
enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us 'The
Dangling Prussian' as a signpost."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Von Bork and Holmes, in "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q280" date="1917">
    <p>
      "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. Start her up, Watson, for it's time that we were on
our way. I have a check for five hundred pounds which should be cashed
early, for the drawer is quite capable of stopping it if he can."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in the final paragraph of "His Last Bow"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q281" date="1927">
    <p>
      I fear that Mr. Sherlock Holmes may become like one of those
popular tenors who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to
make repeated farewell bows to their indulgent audiences. This must
cease and he must go the way of all flesh, material or imaginary. One
likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of
imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of
Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where
Scott's heroes still may strut, Dickens's delightful Cockneys still
raise a laugh, and Thackeray's worldlings continue to carry on their
reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a
Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while
some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill
the stage which they have vacated.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From the preface to the collection <cite>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q282" date="1921">
    <p>
      "But why not eat?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Because the faculties become refined when you starve them. Why,
surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your
digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the
brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Therefore, it is the brain I must consider."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q283" date="1921">
    <p>
      "It is a small point, Count Sylvius, but perhaps you would
kindly give me my prefix when you address me. You can understand that,
with my routine of work, I should find myself on familiar terms with
half the rogues' gallery, and you will agree that exceptions are
invidious."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q284" date="1921">
    <p>
      "No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider
the furniture!"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q285" date="1922">
    <p>
      Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing
Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my
name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of Thor Bridge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q286" date="1922">
    <p>
      Among these unfinished tales is that of Mr. James Phillimore,
who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never
more seen in this world. No less remarkable is that of the cutter
Alicia, which sailed one spring morning into a small patch of mist
from where she never again emerged, nor was anything further ever
heard of herself and her crew. A third case worthy of note is that of
Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found
stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a
remarkable worm said to be unknown to science.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of Thor Bridge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q287" date="1922">
    <p>
      "Well, if dollars make no difference to you, think of the
reputation. If you pull this off every paper in England and America
will be booming you. You'll be the talk of two continents."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Thank you, Mr. Gibson, I do not think that I am in need of
booming."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Neil Gibson and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Thor Bridge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q288" date="1922">
    <p>
      "You've done yourself no good this morning, Mr. Holmes, for I
have broken stronger men than you. No man ever crossed me and was the
better for it."
    </p>
    <p>
      "So many have said so, and yet here I am," said Holmes, smiling.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Neil Gibson and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Thor Bridge"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q289" date="1923">
    <p>
      Come at once if convenient -- if inconvenient come all the same.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>A note from Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q290" date="1923">
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q291" date="1923">
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q292" date="1923">
    <p>
      "A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a
gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have
snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing
moods may reflect the passing moods of others."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q293" date="1923">
    <p>
      "When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below
it."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q294" date="1924">
    <p>
      "Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said
Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with
the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet
prepared."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q295" date="1924">
    <p>
      "This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it
must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q296" date="1924">
    <p>
      Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head. "I never
get your limits, Watson," said he. "There are unexplored possibilities
about you."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q297" date="1924">
    <p>
      It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It
cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet
another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an
element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Opening paragraph of "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q298" date="1924">
    <p>
      "You say he was affable?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "A purring cat who thinks he sees prospective mice. Some
people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser
souls."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson and Holmes, discussing Baron Gruner, in "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q299" date="1926">
    <p>
      He swung a huge knotted lump of a fist under my friend's nose.
Holmes examined it closely with an air of great interest. "Were you
born so?" he asked. "Or did it come by degrees?" It may have been the
icy coolness of my friend, or it may have been the slight clatter
which I made as I picked up the poker. In any case, our visitor's
manner became less flamboyant.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Adventure of the Three Gables"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q300" date="1926">
    <p>
      "But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull
world without them."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Three Gables"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q301" date="1926">
    <p>
      Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this
opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my
various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice,
but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own
to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his
exaggerated estimates of my own performances. A confederate who
foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous,
but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to
whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, writing in "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q302" date="1926">
    <p>
      "I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice
what I see."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q303" date="1926">
    <p>
      He seemed to live in some high abstract region of surds and
conic sections, with little to connect him with ordinary life.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, describing Ian Murdoch, in "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q304" date="1926">
    <p>
      "You certainly do things thoroughly, Mr. Holmes."
    </p>
    <p>
      "I should hardly be what I am if I did not."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Inspector Bardle and Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q305" date="1926">
    <p>
      "I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for
trifles."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q306" date="1926">
    <p>
      "Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life
pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We
reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow.
Or worse than a shadow -- misery."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q307" date="1926">
    <p>
      "Amberley excelled at chess -- one mark, Watson, of a scheming
mind."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q308" date="1927">
    <p>
      I deprecate, however, in the strongest way the attempts which
have been made lately to get at and to destroy these papers. The
source of these outrages is known, and if they are repeated I have Mr.
Holmes's authority for saying that the whole story concerning the
politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant will be given to
the public. There is at least one reader who will understand.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Watson, in "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q309" date="1927">
    <p>
      "Your life is not your own," he said. "Keep your hands off it."
    </p>
    <p>
      "What use is it to anyone?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself
the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes and Eugenia Ronder, in "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q310" date="1927">
    <p>
      "These are deep waters, Mr. Mason; deep and rather dirty."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q311">
    <p>
      "You will not, I am sure, be offended if I say that any
reputation for sharpness which I may possess has been entirely gained
by the admirable foil which you have made for me. Have I not heard of
debutantes who have insisted on plainness in their chaperones?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Holmes, to Watson, in "The Field Bazaar"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q312">
    <p>
      "My small experience of cricket clubs has taught me that next to
churches and cavalry ensigns they are the most debt-laden things upon
earth."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Holmes, in "The Field Bazaar"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q313">
    <p>
      There are many who will still bear in mind the singular
circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled
many columns of the daily Press in the spring of the year 1892. Coming
as it did at a period of exceptional dulness, it attracted perhaps
rather more attention than it deserved, but it offered to the public
that mixture of the whimsical and the tragic which is most stimulating
to the popular imagination.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>From "The Story of the Man with the Watches"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q314">
    <p>
      "I do not go so far as to say that the English are more honest
than any other nation, but I have found them more expensive to buy."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Herbert de Lernac, in "The Story of the Lost Special"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q315">
    <p>
      "Our stoker did his business so clumsily that Slater in his
struggles fell off the engine, and though fortune was with us so far
that he broke his neck in the fall, still he remained as a blot upon
that which would otherwise have been one of those complete
masterpieces which are only to be contemplated in silent admiration.
The criminal expert will find in John Slater the one flaw in all our
admirable combinations. A man who has had as many triumphs as I can
afford to be frank, and I therefore lay my finger upon John Slater,
and I proclaim him to be a flaw."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>Herbert de Lernac, in "The Story of the Lost Special"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>
      We had a fine rock boa to play the title-rôle, a snake which was the pride of my heart, so one can imagine my disgust when I saw that one critic ended his disparaging review by the words "The crisis of the play was produced by the appearance of a palpably artificial serpent." I was inclined to offer him a goodly sum if he would undertake to go to bed with it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>On the stage version of "The Speckled Band", in the chapter "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes" of Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>This was the second Sherlock Holmes play. I should have spoken about the first, which was produced very much earlier ... It was written and most wonderfully acted by William Gillette, the famous American. ....  "May I marry Holmes?" was one cable which I received from him when in the throes of composition. "You may marry or murder or do what you like with him," was my heartless reply.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>In "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>
      I happened to look out of the window, and perceiving two gentlemen advancing rapidly along Baker Street asked him who they were. He immediately lit his pipe, and, twisting himself on a chair into the figure 8, replied:</p>
 <p>"They are two collaborators in comic opera, and their play has not been a triumph."</p><p>
I sprang from my chair to the ceiling in amazement, and he then explained:</p><p>
"My dear Watson, they are obviously men who follow some low calling. That much even you should be able to read in their faces."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/J._M._Barrie">J.M. Barrie</author>
      <source>"The Adventure of the Two Collaborators", quoted in Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>
      "I perceive, gentlemen," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "that you are at present afflicted by an extraordinary novelty."
    </p><p>
The handsomer of our visitors asked in amazement how he knew this, but the big one only scowled.
    </p><p>
"You forget that you wear a ring on your fourth finger," replied Mr. Holmes calmly.
    </p><p>
I was about to jump to the ceiling when the big brute interposed.
    </p><p>
"That Tommy-rot is all very well for the public, Holmes," said he, "but you can drop it before me. And, Watson, if you go up to the ceiling again I shall make you stay there."
    </p><p>
Here I observed a curious phenomenon. My friend Sherlock Holmes <em>shrank</em>. He became small before my eyes. I looked longingly at the ceiling, but dared not.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/J._M._Barrie">J.M. Barrie</author>
      <source>"The Adventure of the Two Collaborators", quoted in Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>
      "I would rather melt into air," replied Holmes, proudly taking another chair. "But I can tell you why the public don’t go to your piece without sitting the thing out myself."
    </p><p>
"Why?"
    </p><p>
"Because," replied Holmes calmly, "they prefer to stay away."
      </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/J._M._Barrie">J.M. Barrie</author>
      <source>"The Adventure of the Two Collaborators", quoted in Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>Before I leave the subject of the many impersonations of Holmes I may say that all of them, and all the drawings, are very unlike my own original idea of the man. I saw him as very tall—"over 6 feet, but so excessively lean that he seemed considerably taller," said "A Study in Scarlet." He had, as I imagined him, a thin razor-like face, with a great hawks-bill of a nose, and two small eyes, set close together on either side of it. Such was my conception. It chanced, however, that poor Sidney Paget who, before his premature death, drew all the original pictures, had a younger brother whose name, I think, was Walter, who served him as a model. The handsome Walter took the place of the more powerful but uglier Sherlock, and perhaps from the point of view of my lady readers it was as well.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>In "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>People have often asked me whether I knew the end of a Holmes story before I started it. Of course I do. One could not possibly steer a course if one did not know one’s destination.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>In "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>
      I read an excellent and very damaging criticism of the story [Silver Blaze] in some sporting paper, written clearly by a man who did know, in which he explained the exact penalties which would have come upon every one concerned if they had acted as I described. Half would have been in jail and the other half warned off the turf for ever. However, I have never been nervous about details, and one must be masterful sometimes.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>In "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="1924">
    <p>I do not wish to be ungrateful to Holmes, who has been a good friend to me in many ways. If I have sometimes been inclined to weary of him it is because his character admits of no light or shade. He is a calculating machine, and anything you add to that simply weakens the effect.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"></author>
      <source>In "Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir <cite>Memories and Adventures</cite></source>
  </quotation>
</quotations>