Five quotes make a post

[cimorene]

• "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