It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one …

Arthur Conan Doyle
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). The Complete Sherlock Holmes, p.1089, Race Point Publishing
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