I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifle…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition), p.92, W. W. Norton & Company
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