I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

Anatole France
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In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explained that he never revisits the nineteenth century because it is too painful. He always goes instead to the eighteenth century, where figures like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were far more realistic.

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