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“You learn nothing when you are proven right, you know. But you learn everything when you are proven wrong.”
― J. Lawrence Matthews, One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes

“Beware what you read, Watson. Too often a writer seeks to satisfy his readers—not challenge them.”
― J. Lawrence Matthews, One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes