“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”

“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.”

“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”

“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

“No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric...”

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“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.”

“The last person to be hanged in Glasgow at the age of 31 was a beast by the name of Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, he swung from the gallows in Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.”

“As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.”