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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John Buchan
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John Buchan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1875
Born: August 26
Died: 1940
Died: February 11
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Former Governor General Of Canada
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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.
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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.
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[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
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Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
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There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
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He who would valiant be against all disaster let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
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The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
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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.
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But some love not the method of your first Romance they count it, throw't away as dust If I should meet with such, what should I say Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay
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What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie? he asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
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It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
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