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| Arthur Conan Doyle
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. A long shot, Watson, a very long shot! As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst.Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. |
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