Holmes……….
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.
Jeremy Brett was without a shadow of a doubting thomas the best Sherlock Holmes ever...alas he passed away in 1995...a most interesting read about this wonderful actor on Wikipedia here:
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advance you education by getting the complete box set of his DVD's...and also by reading the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.