Sherlock quotes!
Aug. 11th, 2003 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaire"What a lovely thing a rose is!"
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "The Naval Treaty"
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Date: 2003-08-11 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 02:10 am (UTC)I'm checking out the Sherlock Holmes e-Books on Blackmask now!!
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O_O!! My book isn't complete!! WAH! This is GOOD!! More for me to read!! Thank you Silver!! ^___________^ *MUUUUUAAAAH*
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Date: 2003-08-12 02:25 am (UTC)Well, I'm glad I could be of help. If your book was complete it should contain 4 novels and 56 short stories. "The Naval Treaty" is right after "The Greek Interpreter" which is a must-read for Sherlock Holmes fans since it features Holmes' brother Mycroft in the most delicious way ^_^.
Glad you're enjoying this ^.^.
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Date: 2003-08-12 06:44 pm (UTC)