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    It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

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