If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher wor…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes), p.9, Jazzybee Verlag
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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes), p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

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