I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic,…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. ✨ SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). A Study in Scarlet, p.13, ebookspub
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. ✨ SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). A Study in Scarlet, p.13, ebookspub

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