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   kurowoofwoof111 Student
   High School - 10th Grade

   Many people seem to beleive that Sherlock Holme's most famous line is: "Elementary my dear Watson." In fact the line doesn't appear in the Conan Doyle books, only later in Sherlock Holmes' films.

   Here's some of Shelock's most famous quotes, but please look at the references as there are many more.:

   • "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
   • "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
   • "Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand. "
   • "What I know is unofficial; What he knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none. He must disclose all, or he is a traitor to his service."
   • "Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs."
   • "It is human to err, and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous criminal. "
   • "For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise"
   • "If you wish to preserves your incognito, I suggest that you cease to write your name upon the lining of your hat, or else that you turn the crown towards the person whom you are addressing. "

   • "Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest. Nothing has more individuality save, perhaps, watches and bootlaces. "

   Sources:

   http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

   http://equotes.wetpaint.com/page/Sherlock+Holmes+Quotes

   http://www.snopes.com/quotes/signature/elementary.asp

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   Posted by kurowoofwoof111 on Sunday November 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM