"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."
"The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home."
Source: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1891)
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer known for creating Sherlock Holmes, a character that revolutionized detective fiction.
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