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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,

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"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried.
"Elementary," said he [Holmes].


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Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Born: May 22, 1859
Died: July 7, 1930 (aged 71)
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