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“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”
“life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
