“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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