Five quotes make a post

• "No, sir, that cat won’t jump."
  —R. Austin Freeman, "Pandora's Box"
  


• "He has acted on the assumption that the world contains no one but fools. But that is a fool’s assumption.”
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Green Check Jacket"
  


• "But we mustn’t go beyond our facts, and we mustn’t construct theories from newspaper reports."
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Funeral Pyre"
  


• The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral philosophers who make it their province to discover and expound the glaringly obvious[.]
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Stranger's Latchkey"
  


• [... ] like most unreasonable beliefs, it was unshakable.
  —R. Austin Freeman, Mr Polton Explains
  

A whirlwind of decorating

Chairs painted today: 2.5
Walls painted today: one stripe, about 10x60cm
Small wall shelves painted today: 1
Amount of firewood stacked in the shed by Wax during this painting: 1 m³
Other things painted today: the front of the home-built wardrobe! Finally!
Chairs painted yesterday: 1
Inset china cabinet door panels painted yesterday: 2
Pieces of doorframe and baseboard nailed up by Wax yesterday: 10
Time for me to figure out how to open the doorbell and put our names in the slot yesterday: 10 min
Time for me to break one of the wires and thus the doorbell: 1 min
Time for Wax to build a frame out of 1 cm² trim and wide profiled trim around the wall mirror with the chip in the corner: 2 hrs
Manual miter cuts required: 10
Number of miter cuts going the wrong way on the front of the frame that will have to be spackled: 1
Remaining steps before the wardrobe can have the stuff moved back into it: (1) baseboards affixed, (2) top molding affixed, (3) corner trim affixed, (4) curtain rods and shelves reinstalled
Room where the wardrobe is located: the libroffice
Room Wax's aunt will sleep in: the libroffice
Days left to clean the whole house and finish the wardrobe and move the stuff back into it before Wax's aunt arrives: 2