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“A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose”

This week’s quotation is provided by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novella, A Study in Scarlet (1887). In chapter 2, the world’s most famous detective warns Dr. Watson of the dangers of filling one’s brain-attic with too much lumber … “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to…

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