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Quotation from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
“In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.”
The Moonstone, First Period, Chapter XII (Project Gutenberg #155)
Cuff overrules Superintendent Seegrave's dismissal of the smear on the painted door, stating the principle of the detective story.
Citation: "In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet." — Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, First Period, Chapter XII (Project Gutenberg #155). (id the-moonstone-q3)
Portrait: (William) Wilkie Collins by Rudolph Lehmann, Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain.
