Excerpt from In Accordance With the Evidence I have got riches as I have got everything else - everything - I ever wanted, by attention to detail. You'll probably agree with me by-and - by that by attention to detail I mean rather more than most men do when they give this advice to young men about to start in life. I remember they used to give us, as it were, the empty form and shell of this maxim at the Business College, the place in Holborn Archie and I attended; but you've got to have been down into the pit and come back again before you realise the terrible force there is in these truisms. And no less in doing things than undoing them after wards (when that has been necessary) have I planned to the very last minutiw. If I have never seemed a particularly busy man, that has been be cause I have always disliked being seen in the act of doing a thing. And where I have passed my trail is obliterated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.