Arthur Conan Doyle
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
— (Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard (1903)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (* 22. Mai 1859 in Edinburgh, Schottland; † 7. Juli 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex, England) war ein britischer Arzt und Schriftsteller. Er verfasste die Abenteuer von Sherlock Holmes und dessen Freund Dr. Watson. Bekannt ist auch die Figur Challenger aus seinem Roman Die vergessene Welt, die als Vorlage für zahlreiche Filme und Fernsehserien diente.
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn.
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression.
When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity.
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