The Purloined Letter

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...its discovery depends, not at all upon the acumen, but altogether upon the mere care, patience, and determination of the seekers;

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So I did not abandon the search until I had become fully satisfied that the thief is a more astute man than myself.

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In chemistry also the axiom fails.

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...a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty,

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They are right in this much—that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them, of course.

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"The material world," continued Dupin, "abounds with very strict analogies to the immaterial; and thus some color of truth has been given to the rhetorical dogma, that metaphor, or simile, may be made to strengthen an argument, as well as to embellish a description."

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I dispute, in particular, the reason educed by mathematical study.

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And this error is so egregious that...

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I found D— at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui.

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Thus will he inevitably commit himself, at once, to his political destruction.

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...he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other.

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The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which...

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I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments.

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"...no more sagacious agent could, I suppose, be desired, or even imagined."

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This response of the schoolboy lies at the bottom of all the spurious profundity which has been attributed to...

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The fact is, the business is very simple indeed, and I make no doubt that we can manage it sufficiently well ourselves; but then I thought Dupin would like to hear the details of it, because it is so excessively odd.