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“This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. ‘The proper study of mankind is man,’
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,”
he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind,”
