"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."
"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."
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Source: Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Sherlock Holmes Collection: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow”, p.1681, Lulu Press, Inc
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