"It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice."

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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

— Arthur Conan Doyle