What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peer…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930). The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930). The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories

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