Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is full of obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever notices.

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

Spoken by Sherlock Holmes in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1902), early in the novel. The canonical wording is 'The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes' — the corpus text substitutes 'notices' for 'observes' and inserts a comma. Recommend restoring the published wording. Note also that this is a fictional character's line, not Conan Doyle speaking in his own voice.

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