It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. A Scandal in Bohemia
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Hunted Down
It’s every man’s business to see justice done. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Moby Dick
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