When you have eliminated the impossibles, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Emotions can interfere with clear thinking. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. Remove other factors, and what remains must be the truth. Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. I never make any exceptions. There are no exceptions to the law. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. I pursue spiritual excitement. I crave for mental exaltation. Detective is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be studied with equal dispassion rather than emotion. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. Winwood Read has a good explanation of this issue. He argued that although each person is a difficult mystery, when humans are gathered together, there are laws. For example, you cannot predict a person's personality, but you can definitely know the human nature. Personalities are different, but personality is eternal. This is what statisticians say. Winwood Reade is good upon the subject. He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. I never guess. Guessing is a very bad habit and is harmful to logical reasoning. I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. I have a very special constitution. I don't feel tired at all when I'm working, but it would make me exhausted if I was idle. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

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