There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912). copy citation

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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Source The Lost World
Topic opportunity heroism
Date 1912
Language English
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“If I did, I should try to take it."
"But chances are all around you. It is the mark of the kind of man I mean that he makes his own chances. You can't hold him back. I've never met him, and yet I seem to know him so well. There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It's for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men. Look at that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon. It was blowing a gale of wind; but because he was announced to go he insisted on starting.” source

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