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1	!!!Fiction
2	->''"Is there anything else that puzzles you?"''
3	-->-- '''Literature/SherlockHolmes''', ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''
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5	->''Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own, to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances. A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.''
6	-->-- '''Sherlock Holmes''', ''The Blanched Soldier''
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8	->''[...] I have got a grip of the essential facts. I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your cooperation if I do not show you the position from which we start.''
9	-->--'''Sherlock Holmes''', ''Silver Blaze''
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11	->''"I’m happy to play the fool for you. I will run along behind you like some halfwit, making you look clever, if that’s what you need, but ''dear God above'' you will hold yourself to a higher standard!"''
12	-->-- '''Dr Watson''', ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "The Abominable Bride"
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14	->'''Dirk''': ''I need you, [=MacDuff=]!''\
15	'''Richard''': ''You need me?''\
16	'''Dirk''': ''No... That is to say, you are the grit around which the pearl of truth often forms. Your plain-speaking everyman perspective is useful counterpoint to... And you're a very good sounding board for my more outlandish theories...''\
17	'''Richard''': ''You mean you think better when you're showing off?''\
18	'''Dirk''': ''See? There you go. Cutting straight to the heart of the matter.''
19	-->--''Series/DirkGently''
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21	->''"[[InvokedTrope And Twilight will be my lowly assistant who asks silly questions with obvious answers]]."''
22	-->-- '''Pinkie Pie''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]
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24	->''"Oh you remember... Thingy... The... not-me-one. The asking-questions-one."''
25	-->--'''The Twelfth Doctor''', Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath
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27	->''"I'm being extremely clever up here and there's noone around looking impressed! What's the point in having you all?!"''
28	-->--'''The Eleventh Doctor''', Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut
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30	->''"I remember only his incredulous wonder, his openmouthed appreciation of my talents - the ease with which I misled him without uttering an untrue word, his bafflement, his stupendous astonishment when he at last perceived the truth that had been clear to me all along. ''Ce cher cher ami!'' It is my weakness, it has always been my weakness, to desire to show off. That weakness, Hastings could never understand. But indeed it is very necessary for a man of my abilities to admire himself - and for that one needs stimulation from outside. I cannot, truly I cannot, sit in a chair all day reflecting how truly admirable I am. One needs the human touch. One needs - as they say nowadays - the stooge."''
31	-->--'''Literature/HerculePoirot''', [[AwesomeEgo modest as ever]], on Captain Hastings
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33	->''"In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated. [...] In you, sanity is personified. Do you realise what that means to me? When the criminal sets out to do a crime his first effort is to deceive. Who does he seek to deceive? The image in his mind is that of the normal man. There is probably no such thing actually – it is a mathematical abstraction. But you come as near to realising it as is possible. There are moments when you have flashes of brilliance, when you rise above the average; moments (I hope you will pardon me) when you descend to curious depths of obtuseness; but take it all for all, you are amazingly normal. ''Eh bien,'' how does this profit me? Simply in this way: as in a mirror, I see reflected in your mind exactly what the criminal wishes me to believe. That is terrifically helpful and suggestive."\
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35	I did not quite understand. It seemed to me that what Poirot was saying was hardly complimentary.''
36	-->-- '''Captain Hastings''' very nearly taking a hint, "[[Literature/HerculePoirot Lord Edgware Dies]]"
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38	->''"Hmm? Eh? What's this all about? Please explain so that I might be shocked along with the rest of the court."''
39	-->-- '''The Judge''', ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''
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41	!!!On works
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43	->''"9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader."''
44	-->-- '''Ronald Knox's Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction (as seen on FairPlayWhodunnit)'''
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