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( Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is )
( likely to be at                                               )
( fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with     )
( great caution.  Take                                          )
( the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have   )
( witnesses, you will                                           )
( find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the      )
( aspect of the pencil,                                         )
( you will say that she did it with her teeth.                  )
(                 -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" )
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