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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Novelist
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Edinburgh
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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A trusty comrade is always of use and a chronicler still more so.
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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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