Arthur Conan Doyle quote: There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle ~

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