"You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration. "It is so long a chain, and every link rings true."
"It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas, I already feel it closing upon me! My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so."
A. Conan Doyle, "The Red-Headed League"
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
A. Conan Doyle, "The Five Orange Pips"
"It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas, I already feel it closing upon me! My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so."
A. Conan Doyle, "The Red-Headed League"
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
A. Conan Doyle, "The Five Orange Pips"
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