Emma Jane Holloway Quotes

#1. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

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#2. emotions were a drug to be carefully administered. Just enough gave strength. Too much rendered a person - most people - useless.

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#3. Perhaps maturity is the knowledge of how much we can survive. More

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#4. Pessimism is the basis of all sound expectations. If you foresee nothing good, no outrage can shock you.

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#5. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.

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#6. That's the trouble with gathering truth. It's never neat and tidy ...

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#7. You talk like we're in open warfare."
"Aren't we?" The man blew on his tea. "You're pointing a gun at something."
"I'm annoyed.

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#8. No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.

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#9. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by John H. Watson, M.D., "The Adventure of the Yellow Face

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#10. Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

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#11. A man needs an antidote to boredom. A man needs ambition.

To do what?

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#12. School did prepare a young person for life, but never in the ways parents expected.

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#13. Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.

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#14. Fighting beside Bucky was a bit like guarding the back of a rampaging bear, but it was a role Tobias had played a hundred times back in school. For all his mild manners, Buckingham Penner was a full-steam-ahead kind of fighter with little regard for sneak attacks from behind.

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#15. But until you make up your mind, I cannot give you the answer you wish to hear since you don't know what that is.

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#16. Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes

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#17. I never took you for the defender of Sunday picnics and tea at five

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