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I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
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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John Buchan
1st Baron Tweedsmuir
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The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
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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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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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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.
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I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.
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[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
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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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In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
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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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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.
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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.
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Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.
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There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
John Buchan
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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