Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diamete…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1, p.13, Zillmann Publishing
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1, p.13, Zillmann Publishing

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