Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me. The Trial
As a goose is not frightened by cackling nor a sheep by bleating, so let not the clamour of a senseless multitude alarm you. Fragment
It is easy to be wise after the event. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Unpublished fragment
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