For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life …

Arthur Conan Doyle
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations, p.232, Ageless Reads
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