It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

You see, but you do not observe.
(Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
(Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four

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