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• it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.
  If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect....
• Education never ends... It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
• and the first lesson is: Never lose the alternative way out of sight.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
• I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
  -- Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]...
• You see but you do not observe. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holme
• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity...
• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
• when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, english autho...