Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes:
Ocupation: Physician
Life: May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930
Birthday: May 22
Death: July 7
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.
source: Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.356, BoD - Books on Demand
topic: Children, Father, Moving, Personal Feelings, Compunction
