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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
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“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
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“I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.”
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“Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.”
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“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
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