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“Which is it to-day,” I asked, “morphine or cocaine?”
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. “It is cocaine,” he said, “a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

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Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1890-02), "The Sign of the Four," ch. 1, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK) | WIST Quotations

"Which is it to-day," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" Watson and Holmes. The original publication, and Doyle's manuscript (along with many other…

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