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“In a shilling-spin of an instant I realised that he wasn’t a crude work but the ruin of something fine.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“...to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language unrelated to English is nothing to do with equivalent words. Whenever I'd tried to do that in Chinese I'd come out with unbroken nonsense. I had to forget the English, hang the meaning up in a well-lit gallery, stare at it hard, then describe it afresh.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes