Arthur Conan Doyle, "A British Commando", The Strand Magazine, June 1901 arthur-conan-doyle.com
• Referencing the NRA's Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan-Doyle's desire to develop local rifle clubs more accessible to working class men.

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. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them.

— Arthur Conan Doyle on National Rifle Association (United Kingdom)

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• Referencing the NRA's Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan-Doyle's desire to develop local rifle clubs more accessible to working class men." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

About Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22 1859 – July 7 1930) was a British writer and physician, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.