“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Red Headed League
“I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”
Source: The Collected Stories
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