Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser s…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p.456, BoD - Books on Demand
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p.456, BoD - Books on Demand

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