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Quotation from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (spoken by Sherlock Holmes)

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg #2852)

Portrait of Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes praises Watson's attempt to read Dr. Mortimer's stick, before explaining that most of Watson's conclusions were wrong.

Citation: "It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg #2852). (id the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-q1)

Portrait: Cover (Hound of Baskervilles, 1902), Alfred Garth Jones, Public domain.

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