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Former Governor General Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (60)

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The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.
Vincent Massey
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
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I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
John Buchan
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I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
John Buchan
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Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
John Buchan
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In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.
Vincent Massey
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London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
John Buchan
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I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.
John Buchan
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There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
John Buchan
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It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.
John Buchan
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
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Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
Vincent Massey
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