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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Source: Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson, in The Sign of Four, ch. 1 (1890).
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, (May 22 1859-1930), Scottish author, physician; He created the detective Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, 1887.

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