WARREN’S EPITAPH. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to fit facts.” Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson, in A Scandal in Bohemia (A.C. Doyle, 1891).
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