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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four Quotes: Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
         

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?


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Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
         



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