“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

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About Arthur Conan Doyle

British physician and author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Doyle is best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes. His stories and novels, blending logic and observation, remain foundational to detective fiction and popular culture.

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