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  • "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

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Date: 9 Jul 2023 01:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] princessofgeeks
Pithy!

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Date: 9 Jul 2023 06:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jennaria
I went on an R. Austin Freeman spree a few years back, on account of finding his work on Project Gutenberg. My memory is that it was kinda Victorian C.S.I.

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Date: 9 Jul 2023 08:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oracne
This is a good post.

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