Quotation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in A Study in Scarlet, ch. 2 (1887).

Holmes made a similar comparison in The Five Orange Pips. See also Doyle's comment under "libraries."

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