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'Excellent,' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). 'Elementary, my dear Watson' is not found in any book by Conan Doyle, but is first found in P. G. Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1915)

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