Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. Quotes

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

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