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"A Study in Scarlet [originally, "A Tangled Skein" in Beeton's Christmas Annual]"
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Date: 1887
"You see, he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"It is a mistake to think that that little room [the 'brain-attic'] has elastic walls and can distend to any extent"
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
