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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.

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“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

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“If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”

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“Anything is better than stagnation.”

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“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

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“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

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“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

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“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

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“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.”

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“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”

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