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"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty."
"I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?"
"The only unofficial consulting detective," he answered. "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection."
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
"No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty."
"I would not tell them too much," said Holmes. "Women are never to be entirely trusted -- not the best of them."
"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid."
"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."
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?"
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