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quotes[1]="\"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst.\" -  <I>The \"Gloria Scott\"</I>";
quotes[2]="\"Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,\" remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. \"It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer.\" -  <I>The Surgeon Talks</I>";
quotes[3]="An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. -  <I>The Musgrave Ritual</I>";
quotes[4]="The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .   -  <I>The Surgeon Talks</I>";
quotes[5]="\"Something of his birth place seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with gray archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.\" -  <I>The Musgrave Ritual</I>";
quotes[6]="\"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital.\" -  <I>The Reigate Squire</I>";
quotes[7]="I go to Gascony, but my words stay here in your memory, and long after Etienne Gerard is forgotten a heart may be warmed or a spirit braced by some faint echo of the words that he has spoken.  Gentlemen, an old soldier salutes you and bids you farewell. -  <I>The Adventures of Gerard</I>";
quotes[8]="\"Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.\" -  <I>The Hound of the Baskervilles</I>";
quotes[9]="\"My dear Watson,\" said he, \"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.  To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.\" -  <I>The Greek Interpreter</I>";
quotes[10]="A good soldier in an enemy's country should everywhere and at all times be on the alert.  It has been one of the rules of my life, and if I have lived to wear grey hairs it is because I have observed it.  And yet upon that night I was as careless as a foolish young recruit who fears lest he should be thought to be afraid. -  <I>The Adventures of Gerard</I>";
quotes[11]="Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert?  To me they are the most soothing things in Nature.  I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them.  The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain.  But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.  -  <I>The Stark Munro Letters</I>";
quotes[12]="\"I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man.  At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.\" -  <I>The Final Problem</I>";
quotes[13]="The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork. -  <I>Beyond the City</I>";
quotes[14]="\"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.  Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals.  It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.  No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one.  Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion.\" -  <I>The Greek Interpreter</I>";
quotes[15]="\"God bless you for saying that!\" cried Miss Harrison.  \"If we keep our courage and our patience the truth must come out.\" -  <I>The Naval Treaty</I>";
quotes[16]="To see their sons and daughters so flushed and healthy and happy, gave them also a reflected glow, and it was hard to say who had most pleasure from the game, those who played or those who watched. -  <I>Beyond the City</I>";
quotes[17]="I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his opinions upon the Milky Way. -  <I>The Stark Munro Letters</I>";
quotes[18]="A minute later the bailiff and four of his men rode past him on their journey back to Southampton, the other two having been chosen as grave-diggers.  As they passed Alleyne saw that one of the men was wiping his sword-blade upon the mane of his horse.  A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle.  It was a terrible world thought he, and it was hard to know which were the most to be dreaded, the knaves or the men of the law. -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[19]="Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds.  Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[20]="\"His neighbor is a tooth-drawer.  That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair.  I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.\" -  <I>The White Company</I>";
quotes[21]="Slate-coloured clouds with ragged fringes are drifting slowly overhead.  Between them one has a glimpse of higher clouds of a lighter gray.  I can hear the gentle swish of the rain striking a clearer note on the gravel path and a duller among the leaves.  Sometimes it falls straight and heavy, till the air is full of the delicate gray shading, and for half a foot above the ground there is a haze from the rebound of a million tiny globules.  -  <I>The Stark Munro Letters</I>";
quotes[22]="It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization, like untamed beasts in a cage.  -  <I>The Five Orange Pips</I>";
quotes[23]="\"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.  All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance.  But this rose is an extra.  Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.  It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.\" -  <I>The Naval Treaty</I>";
quotes[24]="There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs. -  <I>Sir Nigel</I>";
quotes[25]="I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. Done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. -  <I>The Musgrave Ritual</I>";
quotes[26]="\"You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?\" said he. -  <I>The Final Problem</I>";
quotes[27]="\"And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.\" -  <I>The Red-Headed League</I>";
quotes[28]="\"We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation.  Who was I?  What did I want?  What did I mean by asking questions?  He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.\"  -  <I>The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist</I>";
quotes[29]="It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city.  Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets.  Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement.  The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.  There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,--sad faces and glad, haggard and merry.  Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.  -  <I>The Sign of The Four</I>";
quotes[30]="\"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.  He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.  He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.  He has a brain of the first order.  He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.\" -  <I>The Final Problem</I>";
quotes[31]="He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.  -  <I>The Doctors of Hoyland</I>";

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