It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
It is more than possible; it is probable.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
There are women in whim the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. 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
Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
Holmes, you have an answer to everything
I have taken to living by my wits.
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
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