"He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.(...)
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(...) Grit in a sensitive instrument, 또는 a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be 더 많이 disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler"
(Sherlock Holmes: "A 스캔들 in Bohemia")
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