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    “It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.... I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
    “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
    “That was the curious incident.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence,” I remarked.
    “So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)