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"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it
is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?"
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"I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened, but what was about to happen..."
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"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex...there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."
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"Sir Robert Peel (1778-1850), organized London's first, pre-victorian, police force. Prior to 1829, public order in London was primarily the responsibility of night watchmen and army soldiers. Peel selected a short street in London called "Scotland Yard" to be the location of the new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Force. He initially selected black jackets, metal badges, and tall wool hats. In 1863, the hats were changed."
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