Sherlocution

Because I've got nothing better and there is nothing better, 10 Holmesian aphorisms on 10 August:

1. "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot." (Abbey Grange)
2. "I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject." (Red Headed League)
3. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (The Sign of Four)
4. "You see, but you do not observe." (A Scandal in Bohemia)
5. "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it was not connected up with the work for which it was built." (Wisteria Lodge)
6. "Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same." (Telegram to Watson - Creeping Man)
7. "Is there any other point to which you wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That is the curious incident." (Holmes and Inspector Gregory - Silver Blaze)
8. "It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts." (Second Stain)
9. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." (The Boscombe Valley Mystery)
10. "To a great mind, nothing is little." (A Study in Scarlet)

And finally in case you didn't know:

Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantlepiece. (The Engineer's Thumb)

Have you hugged your Canon today?
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