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| The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue |  |
| By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmanent by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |
| Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |
| It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |
