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Q: Your chief idea of happiness?
A: Time well filled.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle answers an 1899 version of the Proust questionnaire with equal parts wisdom and snark.
Semi-related, what Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes teaches us about life.

Q: Your chief idea of happiness?

A: Time well filled.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle answers an 1899 version of the Proust questionnaire with equal parts wisdom and snark.

Semi-related, what Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes teaches us about life.