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quotes[1]="\"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.\" -  <I>The Red-Headed League</I>";
quotes[2]="It was admitted on all sides that Challenger's opening half-hour was a magnificent display of oratory and argument. His deep organ voice -- such a voice as only a man with a fifty-inch chest can produce -- rose and fell in a perfect cadence which enchanted his audience. -  <I>The Land of Mist</I>";
quotes[3]="When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them.  The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.   -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[4]="\"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.\" -  <I>The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb</I>";
quotes[5]="Surely man need not trouble himself with grotesque speculations as to the nature of life beyond the grave. We had enough to do in this world. Life was a beautiful thing. The man who appreciated its real duties and beauties would have sufficient to employ him without dabbling in pseudo sciences which had their roots in frauds, exposed already a hundred times and yet finding fresh crowds of foolish devotees whose insane credulity and irrational prejudice made them impervious to all argument.  -  <I>The Land of Mist</I>";
quotes[6]="\"What one man can invent another can discover,\" said Holmes.  -  <I>The Adventure of the Dancing Men</I>";
quotes[7]="\"Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.\" -  <I>The Man with the Twisted Lip</I>";
quotes[8]="\"It is quite a three pipe problem . . . \" -  <I>The Red-Headed League </I>";
quotes[9]="\"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!\" -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[10]="I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem. -  <I>The Captain of the Polestar </I>";
quotes[11]="\"Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.\" -  <I>His Last Bow</I>";
quotes[12]="Without, the sun shines bright and the birds are singing amid the ivy on the drooping beeches.  Their choice is made, and they turn away hand-in-hand, with their backs to the darkness and their faces to the light. -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[13]="Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.  With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff.  For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[14]="\"If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.\" -  <I>The Lost World</I>";
quotes[15]="He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.  \"It is cocaine,\" he said, \"a seven-per-cent. solution.  Would you care to try it?\" -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[16]="\"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine.  It racks itself to pieces.\" -  <I>The Adventure of the Devil's Foot</I>";
quotes[17]="Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.  Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real.  Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor. -  <I>Selecting a Ghost</I>";
quotes[18]="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.\" -  <I>The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire</I>";
quotes[19]="I am, I think, one of the most unsuspicious men upon earth, and through a certain easy-going indolence of disposition I never even think of the possibility of those with whom I am brought in contact trying to deceive me.  It does not occur to me.  -  <I>The Stark Munro Letters</I>";
quotes[20]="\"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.\" -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";
quotes[21]="So they lived, these men, in their own lusty, cheery fashion--rude and rough, but honest, kindly and true. Let us thank God if we have outgrown their vices.  Let us pray to God that we may ever hold their virtues.   -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[22]="\"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.\" -  <I>A Study in Scarlet</I>";
quotes[23]="\"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.  That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.\" -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[24]="Brothers are a blessing for one thing.  There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them. -  <I>Our Derby Sweepstakes</I>";
quotes[25]="In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England, for out of the east there drifted a monstrous cloud, purple and piled, heavy with evil climbing slowly up the hushed heaven. -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";
quotes[26]="\"The only unofficial consulting detective,\" he answered.  \"I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.\" -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[27]="Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. -  <I>Our Derby Sweepstakes</I>";
quotes[28]="\"No, no:  I never guess.  It is a shocking habit,--destructive to the logical faculty.\" -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[29]="This love which I had thought was a joke and a plaything--it is only now that I understand that it is the moulder of one's life, the most solemn and sacred of all things.   -  <I>The Adventures of Gerard</I>";
quotes[30]="\"I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?\" -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[31]="Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days.  God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning.  To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them. -  <I>The White Company</I>";

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