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“I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without some advice. " - Violet Hunter, The copper Beeches.



“Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”


― Arthur Conan Doyle,'Sherlock' The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.



“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes




There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].-Hamlet, Shakespeare.



“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes




“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet


“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity