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"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ("The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" wink

"The air of London is sweeter for my presence." ("The Final Problem" wink

"My brain has always governed my heart." ("The Sign of Four" wink

"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." ("The Sign of Four" wink

"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her." ("The Musgrave Ritual" wink

"When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most. . . A married woman grabs at her baby - an unmarried one reaches for her jewel box." ("A Scandal in Bohemia" wink

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." ("The Boscombe Valley Mystery" wink

"You can...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." ("The Sign of Four" wink

"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last." ("The Adventure of the Red Circle" wink

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ("The Adventure of The Blanched Soldier" wink

"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule." ("The Sign of Four" wink

"...when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ("The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" wink